Comments on: Calculating Distance Between Points In MySQL http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/12146/calculating-distance-between-points-in-mysql/ A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:52:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Adam http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/12146/calculating-distance-between-points-in-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-287502 Adam Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:22:10 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=12146#comment-287502 There's an example of distance calculation in the mysql manual - the trick is to make a line out of the two points and then get the length of the line: ROUND(GLength(LineStringFromWKB(LineString(AsBinary(point1), AsBinary(point2))))) http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/gis-with-mysql.html Thanks for your work - saved me a bit of digging! There’s an example of distance calculation in the mysql manual – the trick is to make a line out of the two points and then get the length of the line:

ROUND(GLength(LineStringFromWKB(LineString(AsBinary(point1), AsBinary(point2)))))

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/gis-with-mysql.html

Thanks for your work – saved me a bit of digging!

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