Chapter 7. Spicing Up a Search Using Geo

A geo point refers to the latitude and longitude of a point on Earth. Each location on it has its own unique latitude and longitude. Elasticsearch is aware of geo-based points and allows you to perform various operations on top of it. In many contexts, it's also required to consider a geo location component to obtain various functionalities. For example, say you need to search for all the nearby restaurants that serve Chinese food or I need to find the nearest cab that is free. In some other situation, I need to find to which state a particular geo point location belongs to understand where I am currently standing.

This chapter is modeled such that all the examples mentioned are related to real-life scenarios, of restaurant searching, for better understanding. Here, we take the example of sorting restaurants based on geographical preferences. A number of cases ranging from the simple, such as finding the nearest restaurant, to the more...