Re: MySQL anemic GIS support

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Dykman
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

MySQL anemic GIS support

2011-10-07 Thread René Fournier
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