Chapter 10. Proximity analysis
This chapter covers:
Nearest neighbor searches
KNN distance operators
Using KNN with geography
Geotagging
Once you’ve located places with a set of coordinates, questions such as the following arise: How far is my house from the nearest expressway? How many burger joints are within a mile drive? What’s the average distance that people have to commute to work? Which three hospitals closest to me offer emergency vasectomies? We’ll file all these questions under the heading of proximity analysis–loosely, the study of how far something is located from something else.
We’ll cover both the traditional methods of finding closest neighbors as well as newer methods using KNN indexes. Speed is a concern when performing proximity ...
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