Somebody feel to jump in and contradict me here, but I have never had any
love from the MySQL GIS stack. For the very few functions it does support,
the performance has been abysmal and I generally find myself hacking
together UDFs against columns of FLOAT and avoiding POINT altogether.
- md
On
Anyone have any idea on if/when MySQL will get real GIS support?
http://mysqldbnews.blogspot.com/2007/10/does-mysql-gis-make-grade.html
…is what I'm referring to. Specifically, the factor that many functions are
quietly replaced with MBRContains(). This makes it, for example, not possibl