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What is a good way to store geographical data for distance calculations
What would be the best way to store data in a database for geographical calculations? Say I have an ItemsForSale table paired to a Users table which holds their geo location. I know I can use latitude ...
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What are the benefits of using geospatial datatypes?
We currently store points as three floats (lat,lon,alt) and support only one type of query (points within a given radius) but look forward to support more queries. We are using PHP and MySQL. What ...
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