Re: Spatial extensions and GIS

2004-06-07 Thread Mirza
In both cases you will have to write your own code. MySQL, so far, only can store Spatial data and do very simple (still, r-tree optimized) GIS queries (like: all objects inside rect). mirza Terry Pothecary wrote: Hi. This may be a daft question, so forgive me: I am just starting out with the

Spatial extensions and GIS

2004-06-07 Thread Terry Pothecary
Hi. This may be a daft question, so forgive me: I am just starting out with the Spatial extensions and I am wondering how I can use it to determine the distances between any 2 landmarks that have been entered as POINTs in the database. The POINTs are entered with longitude and lattitude