How to use MySQL geospatial extensions with spherical geometries
- by Joshua
Hi Everyone,
I would like to store thousands of latitude/longitude points in a MySQL db. I was successful at setting up the tables and adding the data using the geospatial extensions where the column 'coord' is a Point(lat, lng).
Problem:
I want to quickly find the 'N' closest entries to latitude 'X' degrees and longitude 'Y' degrees. Since…