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Storing Polygons & Filtering by Geolocations in Typesense

TLDR Ivy asks if it's possible to store polygons in Typesense and filter by geolocations within that polygon. Kishore Nallan says there is a feature request open for this but no support yet.

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Apr 26, 2023 (5 months ago)

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Ivy

09:50 PM

And then follow up question, we can search for stored geolocations within a polygon (which is awesome!). Is it possible to do the inverse, i.e. store polygon(s) in Typesense & filter by geolocations within that polygon? If not, is that on the roadmap? 🙏 Thanks so much 🙂

We're excited to move forward with using Typesense to back our search!

Apr 27, 2023 (5 months ago)

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Kishore Nallan

12:45 AM

We don't have a way to store a polygon yet. But we have a feature request open (https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/336) so hope to add support for it in future.

Ivy

02:40 PM

Good to know, thanks!!

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