100x Increase in SOLR Performance and Throughput

by Justin Leider on April 27, 2009

Is your SOLR installation running slower than you think it should? Performance, throughput and scalability not what you are expecting or hoping? Do you constantly see that others have much higher SOLR query performance and scalability than you do? All (…)

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PHP/KML Polyline Simplification with Douglas-Peucker

by Clay vanSchalkwijk on April 20, 2009

Quality GIS data sometimes comes with a lot more precision than what is usable for Google Maps (or other mapping software). The problem lies in the number of points representing a polygon that you want to overlay. A county representation (…)

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PHP GIS Functions

by Clay vanSchalkwijk on April 14, 2009

I have been working a lot of with PHP and GIS consulting for CitySquares and the History Engine. I found searching for everything I needed to do basic processing & Google Integration tedious and painful. So here is a collection (…)

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