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Re: Porting "distance_sphere()" and "distance_spheroid()" to MySQL.
Posted by: Lenz Grimmer
Date: September 15, 2008 05:01AM

Hi Koji,

Koji Okumura Wrote:
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> I registered a new project at MySQL forge just
> now.
> http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=296
>
>
> I'll port two functions, "distance_sphere()" and
> "distance_spheroid()", of PostGIS to MySQL.
> These are compatible with same name functions of
> PostGIS.
> At first, I made the program that is UDF.
>
> http://okilab.jp/blog/2008/07/distance_sphere_dist
> ance_spher.html
>
> Please give me your comments and advices.

Excellent! I've installed and tested this plugin - you can read my review here:

http://www.lenzg.org/archives/220-New-UDF-for-MySQL-5.1-provides-GIS-functions-distance_sphere-and-distance_spheroid.html

Do you plan to add more PostGIS functions to this plugin?
Will you publish your work as a Bazaar source tree, to allow easy contribution?

Bye,

LenZ

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