But if I do this, how do I still get lat and lon as two different fields? This finds the right record set, but it returns both fields concatenated into a single field.


On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Steve Musumeche wrote:

You could try using CONCAT:

select distinct(CONCAT(lat, long)) from table where ...

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Brian Dunning wrote:
Lat & lon are two different fields. Either can be duplicated, but not both.


On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Steve Musumeche wrote:

Select DISTINCT(lat_long_field) from table where...

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Brian Dunning wrote:
Many different records will be returned though, I just don't want any dupes where both lat/lon is the same.

:)

On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Hiep Nguyen wrote:

select * from table where ..... limit 1

that would do it if you don't care which one it returns

JC

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Brian Dunning wrote:

I'm searching a database of geopoints, and when two records have the
same latitude and longitude, I only want to return one of them -
basically just find all the unique locations. How do you set up a
select like this? Thanks...



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