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Neo4j Spatial: Finding Things Close to Other Things

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Author
Craig Taverner
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1,266
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5
Language
English
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Summary

The Neo4j Spatial project provides a powerful geographic capabilities framework in the Neo4j database, enabling convenient and intuitive spatial processing. It started with support for complex geometries in 2010 and has since simplified working with point locations through its SimplePointLayer API. This layer simplifies the process of adding points to the index and performing proximity searches. The project aims to adapt existing graph data models to Neo4j Spatial, allowing developers to perform spatial queries on their own data model. With various APIs available, including REST, Java, and GeoTools, users can explore different ways of exposing the functionality. The Neo4j Spatial team welcomes feedback on how they should expose their API in the future.

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