Neo4j Spatial Part 1 by Max De Marzi.
One of my new year resolutions is to do a project with Neo4j Spatial, so we’ll kick off my first blog post of the year with a gentle introduction to this awesome plugin. I advise you to watch this very short 15 minute video by Neo4j Spatial creator Craig Taverner. The man is a genius level developer, you’ll gain IQ points just listening, I swear.
Max’s layers image is haunting familiar to old time topic map hands.
This is the first of what promises to be an excellent series of posts on Neo4j Spatial.
In case you are not familiar with Neo4j Spatial:
Neo4j Spatial is a library of utilities for Neo4j that faciliates the enabling of spatial operations on data. In particular you can add spatial indexes to already located data, and perform spatial operations on the data like searching for data within specified regions or within a specified distance of a point of interest.
While you are reading the examples, recall that “spatial” in the sense of Google Maps or Open Street Map is only one sense of “spatial.”