First of all, thanks for your great work on this module.

I am very interested in taking an active role in the future of this module. As I understand it, ApacheSolr 1.5 has built in geo-spatial searching. However, this module still has a lot of value to the drupal community as long as 1.4 is active.

I have posted a recent patch and am working on another one. I have been collaborating with another user of this module (username vishun) to improve on the module, and would like to request co-maintainer status.

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vishun commented

We have some neat things for this module in the works and I'm looking forward to contributing our combined efforts to help make a solid location based search solution for Drupal.

Request for co-maintainer x 2

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jschoder commented

My guess is that mikejoconnor isn't reading the issues of this module since his last forum entry on the entire drupal page is more than half a year old. I also need the integration of location to apache solr. I need especially the possibility to search by distance between a given node and the nodes collected in Solr.

Can you please sent me your current version of the plugin or even better create a new project for the changes?

Also I would appreciate if the module wouldn't depend on Apache since I am using Nginx as webserver.

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vishun commented

Apache Solr 3x (aka 1.5 previously) has location-based Spatial Search baked in, so it is quite possible that the actual apachesolr drupal module may see a release supporting that before this module itself reaches a stable release. Please refer to http://drupal.org/node/1187888 for the time being.

Also note that Apache Solr itself does not require the actual Apache web server to function according to http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#What_are_the_Requirements_for_running_a_...