MySQL has some powerful, and perhaps underused spatial extensions, but the most interesting functions are still unimplemented: “Note: Currently, MySQL does not implement these functions…”

Among those as-yet unimplemented functions is DISTANCE(). Alternatives can be found here and here, though neither is clean or simple. I wonder if a simple MBRContains() is good enough, though…

Posted June 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: distance, geolocation, mysql, MySQL spatial functions, spatial functions, unimplemented, workaround.

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