Neo4j spatial withinDistance returns no results

Question

I am trying to get the Neo4j spatial plugin working. However, when I try to query withinDistance via REST, either at the plugin URI or with cypher, I do not get any results, even if I set the distance to several million km. I've looked at Neo4j Spatial 'WithinDistance' Cypher query returns empty while REST call returns data which has a similar issue and am indexing the nodes but still no joy. Could someone have a look at the code below and tell me what the issue is? Thanks.

private void checkSpatialDB() {
    Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    WebTarget target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "ext/SpatialPlugin");
    Response response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .get(Response.class);

    System.out.println(String.format("Spatial Plugin data:\n" + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s",
            response.readEntity(String.class)));
    response.close();
}

private void addSpatialDataTest() {
    String layerProperties = "{ \"layer\" : \"geom\", \"lat\" : \"lat\", \"lon\" : \"lon\" }";

    Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    WebTarget target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "ext/SpatialPlugin/graphdb/addSimplePointLayer");
    Response response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(layerProperties, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));

    System.out.println(String.format("Add geometry layer:\n" + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s",
            response.readEntity(String.class)));

    response.close();

    // Now add a spatial index
    String indexProperties = "{ \"name\" : \"geom\", \"config\" : {"
            + "\"provider\" : \"spatial\", \"geometry_type\" : \"point\", \"lat\" : \"lat\","
            + "\"lon\" : \"lon\" } }";
    client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "index/node/");
    response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(indexProperties, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));

    System.out.println(String.format("Add geometry index:\n" + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s",
            response.readEntity(String.class)));
    response.close();

    // Now add a spatial node
    String yeovil = "{ \"lat\" : 50.9, \"lon\" : -2.6 }";
    client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "node");
    response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(yeovil, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
    URI newNode = response.getLocation();

    System.out.println(String.format("Add node for Yeovil:\n" + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s"
            + "URI for new node [%s]",
            response.readEntity(String.class), newNode));
    response.close();

    // Add the created node to the spatial layer
    String addToLayer = "{ \"layer\" : \"geom\", \"node\" : \"" + newNode + "\" }";
    client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "ext/SpatialPlugin/graphdb/addNodeToLayer");
    response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(addToLayer, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));

    System.out.println(String.format("Add node to spatial layer:\n" + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s",
            response.readEntity(String.class)));
    response.close();

    // Add the created node to the geom index
    String addToIndex = "{ \"key\" : \"noKey\", \"value\" : \"noValue\", \"uri\" : \"" + newNode + "\" }";
    client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "index/node/geom");
    response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(addToIndex, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
    response.close();

    // Now add another spatial node
    String rayleigh = "{ \"lat\" : 51.6, \"lon\" : 0.6 }";
    client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "node");
    response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(rayleigh, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
    URI anotherNode = response.getLocation();

    System.out.println(String.format("Add node for Yeovil:\n" + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s"
            + "URI for new node [%s]",
            response.readEntity(String.class), anotherNode));

    // Add the created node to the spatial layer
    String addAnotherToLayer = "{ \"layer\" : \"geom\", \"node\" : \"" + anotherNode + "\" }";
    client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "ext/SpatialPlugin/graphdb/addNodeToLayer");
    response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(addAnotherToLayer, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));

    System.out.println(String.format("Add node to spatial layer:\n" + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s",
            response.readEntity(String.class)));
    response.close();

    // Add the created node to the geom index
    String addAnotherToIndex = "{ \"key\" : \"noKey\", \"value\" : \"noValue\", \"uri\" : \"" + anotherNode + "\" }";
    client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "index/node/geom");
    response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(addAnotherToIndex, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
    System.out.println(response.readEntity(String.class));
    response.close();
}

private void findSpatialNode() {
    // Find nodes within 135km of Portsmouth - should be Yeovil
    // String queryString = "{ \"layer\" : \"geom\", \"pointX\" : 50.8, \"pointY\" : -1.1, \"distanceInKm\" : 1350 }";
    String queryString = "{ \"query\" : \"start n=node:geom('withinDistance:[50.8, -1.1, 500.0]') return n\" }";
    Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    WebTarget target = client.target(SERVER_ROOT_URI + "cypher");
    Response response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            .post(Entity.entity(queryString, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));

    System.out.println(String.format("Sent query [%s], status code [%d]\nShould just get Yeovil in search result:"
            + System.getProperty("line.separator") + "%s", queryString, response.getStatus(),
            response.readEntity(String.class)));
    response.close();
}