How to perform geospatial operations on redis hashes - redis

Question

I am reading the docs for redis geospatial and I see that I can store only a key, latitude, longitude, and name.
I have some hashes stored, such as events:id, listings:id, etc. Events for example holds the JSON for an event object. This is because these items don't change much and I am caching them in redis.
In order to find some events within some radius, how can I do that?
Would I have to do something like this?
GEOADD [event:id] {event.latitude} {event.longitude} {event.id}
and then map these against the events:id hash?

Answer 1

GEOADD key longitude latitude member adds an entry (member with longitude and latitude) to a sorted set key, the geospatial index. The sorted is created if it doesn't exist.
To be able to query for events within some radius, you want to have all your events in the same geospatial sorted set.
This means you add all to the same key using:
GEOADD events:location {event.longitude} {event.latitude} {event.id}
You can add more than one event at a time:
GEOADD events:location 13.361389 38.115556 "event:1" 15.087269 37.502669 "event:2"
Note longitude goes first
Then you get all events near to a user-defined location using GEORADIUS
> GEORADIUS events:location 15 37 200 km WITHDIST
1) 1) "event:1"
2) "190.4424"
2) 1) "event:2"
2) "56.4413"
Other commands available are:
GEODIST - the distance between two members
GEOHASH - Geohash strings representing the position
GEOPOS - the positions (longitude, latitude) of all the specified members
GEORADIUSBYMEMBER - as GEORADIUS but it takes the name of a member already existing inside the geospatial index
You can also use the sorted set commands on the geospatial index. For example, to get how many events you have on the geospatial index:
> ZCARD events:location
(integer) 2
You can have your whole JSON-encoded event as the member of the geospatial index, or just the event:id which is also key to another key with the event data, your call.