Chapter 6. Developing Location-based Services with Neo4j
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Installing the Neo4j Spatial extension
- Importing the Esri shapefiles
- Importing the OpenStreetMap files
- Importing data using the REST API
- Creating a point layer using the REST API
- Finding geometries within the bounding box
- Finding geometries within a distance
- Finding geometries within a distance using Cypher
Introduction
By definition, any database that is optimized to store and query the data that represents objects defined in a geometric space is called a spatial database. Although Neo4j is primarily a graph database, due to the importance of geospatial data in the modern world, the spatial extension has been introduced in to Neo4j as an unmanaged ...
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