I have been storing points in mysql without use of the spatial extension. I do not forsee the need to ever store more than points, and am wondering if the spatial extensions would offer any significant advantages. I have looked a bit for tutorials, etc... and have not found much.
One feature that I would like is to be able to find all points withen X distance from of point Y, without doing a table scan. Would the spatial index (Rtree) be able to achieve this? Are there any good tutorials (or heaven forbid, books) that anyone can suggest? Should I go hang out with the cool kids that are using postGIS ;) -- Rob Wultsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wultsch (aim) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
