Hibernate search by state

samsam9988 · **Joined:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:34 pm **Posts:** 66

Hi, With hibernate search 4.2.0, is possible to perform a search by state rather than latitude and longitude?
eg. User may just enter CA (or California) without selecting a city, then click on the search button.
How to retrieve all results for CA?

Thanks
samuel

sanne.grinovero · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:55 am

We don't include a database of coordinates by city, but you can certainly load such information in your DB and use it for distance queries.

If you just want to search by state name rather than "distance in miles", well that's trivial it has always been possible as you don't need Spatial for that.