RE: spatial extensions - SRID

2005-08-15 Thread SGreen
Andras Kende [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/13/2005 10:32:07 PM: Hello, I have a html page with 70+ form fields some like 40 fields are only used for entering quantity numbers… Don’t want to do Mysql table with 70 fields… Is it a good idea to put this 50 fields of the form fields into

Re: spatial extensions - SRID

2005-08-13 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:27 -0400 8/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the powers that be: Can we get a MySql GIS/spatial list?? This is going to be a very popular area (actually it is already). I am trying to use the Spatial extensions to MySql. To be honest PostGIS has many more features, but MySql is my

Re: spatial extensions - SRID

2005-08-13 Thread douglass_davis
Paul DuBois wrote: At 16:27 -0400 8/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a big issue. Will this be the same in version 5? Or will the SRIDs actually be used? I would like to just represent everything in lat/lon, not on a planar surface. Now, if the SRIDs are used in MySql 5,

RE: spatial extensions - SRID

2005-08-13 Thread Andras Kende
Hello, I have a html page with 70+ form fields some like 40 fields are only used for entering quantity numbers… Don’t want to do Mysql table with 70 fields… Is it a good idea to put this 50 fields of the form fields into a single text mysql field? Somehow process it with php before, put

Re: spatial extensions - SRID

2005-08-13 Thread Peter Brawley
Andras, Is it a good idea to put this 50 fields of the form fields into a single text mysql field? Somehow process it with php before, put inside of some kind of xml structure? Nothing wrong with 70 columns unless there are interdependencies /or groupings amongst the 70 values that

spatial extensions - SRID

2005-08-12 Thread douglass_davis
To the powers that be: Can we get a MySql GIS/spatial list?? This is going to be a very popular area (actually it is already). I am trying to use the Spatial extensions to MySql. To be honest PostGIS has many more features, but MySql is my favorite, and on top of that, the applications