# \[ANN\] VPTrees.jl - nearest neighbor search in metric spaces

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-vptrees-jl-nearest-neighbor-search-in-metric-spaces/31477
**Category:** Package Announcements
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-vptrees-jl-nearest-neighbor-search-in-metric-spaces/31477 "2019-11-25T07:33:34Z")
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### Author: ![mthelm85](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mthelm85/32/224164_2.png) [@mthelm85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mthelm85)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-vptrees-jl-nearest-neighbor-search-in-metric-spaces/31477/21 "2020-01-30T18:56:08Z")

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This is awesome. My head has been exploding for the past 24 hours as I’ve been trying to figure out how to create my own custom `Metric` from Distances.jl so that I could implement the Levenshtein distance with NearestNeighbors.jl. I owe you a beer 🍻

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