@natew Yes, that's on the todo list. What kind of features would you like apart from the ability to sort the results based on a given lat long (i.e. returning search results closest to a given geographical location).

Beyond that I don't know, yet.

A great addition to this would be to have the ability to define a polygon and then search for items within a polygon. See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/gis-class-polygon.html for this feature in MySQL. That might be a pretty big stretch though.

@hutbert Certainly on our radar :) If you'd like, happy to connect live so I can understand your use case and prioritize this feature. Would help ensure that we ship something with proven practical value. Let me know!

@jasonbosco I don't have a specific use case so I wouldn't prioritize anything on my account. We have run into situations on some projects where our clients want to limit searches within particular boundaries (like within city limits) rather than by a radius around a fixed point. My primary use case would be sorting by distance for sure but thought this might be a good addition.

Geo distance queries (with various units) would be a massive feature 🎉

GET /collections/:collection/documents/search?lat=50&lon=12&distance=12%20km HTTP/1.1

For a project I have coming up, I would love to use Typesense but the lack of geosearch is a hurdle. Just a simple distance query as @0xflotus suggested would be great to start with.

I was also looking to use a hosted version of Typesense for a new project, but the only thing blocking me is the lack of geosearch which is a main feature of my application. A distance based query would be enough for me too.

Also evaluating Typesense and this is a feature I'd need to see to be able to make the switch.

Particular use case is searching for hotels within a certain geographic area, or near a point of interest. Searching within a bounding polygon is important for this scenario.

Another thing is to boost the ranking of results based on proximity to a location.

Specific use case is searching for points of interest. When a user types ie.. "Zoo", I would want the nearest zoo to be returned based on their geolocation.

I'll keep an eye on this issue to see how it progresses.

Hi @jasonbosco I noticed there is a geosearch branch but it hasn't been touched since January.
Are you still working or planning this feature?

Hi @cboothe, geosearch is definitely still planned! In fact we got about 80% of the work done, but some other high priority requests and issues showed up, so we had to put this on pause, while we tackle those.

I'm excited to announce a preview build for the geo search feature!

Please use this docker image: typesense/typesense:0.21.0.rc7

I've put together a quick guide here: https://gist.github.com/kishorenc/1f537c728f89960048272a03d36bad01

I look forward to hearing your feedback.

Looks great! Very close to meeting my needs. Will the geo data be available as a ranking signal as well? Ie, I'd like to search for all results by keyword "park" , but have the ones nearest to me returned first.

@daamsie Yes! You can use the sort_by search parameter to rank based on proximity to a given lat/lng:

sort_by=location(48.853, 2.344):ASC

Works for me!

Geosearch has shipped as part of v0.21.0. Thank you everyone for your kind feedback and comments.

Would it be possible to add IP-address-based geofencing, similar to aroundLatLngViaIP from Algolia?

@nandorojo We're tracking that request as part of #539