Where to run neo4j spatial queries and code? - neo4j

Question

Beeing till now a RDBMS user its difficult for me to understand the interface of neo4j server when it comes using spatial plugin.
I am used to the interfaces of oracle spatial and postgis in which someone can use the provided gui to create a table with geometry etc.
I have two questions.
1) How can I create a node in neo4j server (I am using version 1.9) with spatial features (coordinates)I read the manual from here:
http://neo4j-contrib.github.io/spatial/
and I know that I have to create a spatial index, then create a node and later to add the node to the index. But doing this through the console of neo4j 1.9 is not efficient. Is there an interface which I can use to do this?
2) In this website: http://neo4j-contrib.github.io/spatial/#spatial-import-shapefile
they show a way to import shapefiles in neo4j. What I don't understand (might besimple but as I said all these things are new to me) is where should I execute this code.
GraphDatabaseService database = new EmbeddedGraphDatabase(databasePath);
try {
ShapefileImporter importer = new ShapefileImporter(database);
importer.importFile("shp/highway.shp", "highway", Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
} finally {
database.shutdown();
}
Although neo4j and its spatial extension is very promising and interesting I think the community is very small and the existing examples very few. I hope I get some help.
Thank you.
D.

Answer 1

For a very clear explanation I kindly suggest you to visit this post: http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2013/03/10/neo4jcypher-finding-football-stadiums-near-a-city-using-spatial/
All you have to do is adding a property to your nodes as for example: { "wtk": "POINT(-2.20024 53.483)" }. If you're familiar with java or some other language you could implement a small piece of code to create these nodes and add them to the index, as Mark did.
I also wrote something on my blog: http://inserpio.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/artworks-spatial-search/
Once again, the code you pasted have to be execute as a simple java program that connects to the graph db and import shape files with a well-known format.
Finally you'll be able to inquiry your node by executing Cypher queries like:
start m=node:museumLocation('withinDistance:[51.5086,-0.1283,0.1]') return m;
where "museumLocation" is the index name, (51.5086,-0.1283) is the center of a circle, 0.1 is the radius within it you want to find some museums.
Cheers,
Lorenzo