Restaurant categorization based on distance

In an e-commerce solution, to search restaurants, it's required that you increase the searchable characteristics of the application. This means that if we are able to give a snapshot of results other than the top-10 results, it would add to the searchable characteristics of the search. For example, if we are able to show how many restaurants serve Indian, Thai, or other cuisines, it would actually help the user to get a better idea of the result set.

In a similar manner, if we can tell them if the restaurant is near, at a medium distance, or far away, we can really pull a chord in the restaurant search user experience, as shown in the following map:

Implementing this is not hard, as we have something called the distance range aggregation. In this aggregation type, we can handcraft the range of distance we are interested in and create a bucket for each of them. We can also define the key name we need, as shown in the following code:

curl -XPOST 'http...