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Long/lat usage
Posted by: Richard Grimes
Date: February 16, 2005 11:13AM

Hi,
I am attempting to develop a Location Based Service and I would like to know if it is possible to use mysql to do this.
As I understand it, mysql does not support geocentric co-ordinates, just planar. I was planning on get long/lat co-ord's from a GPS system using J2ME's location api and then running a spatial 'nearest ' query in my DB to find the nearest services.
Can anyone offer any insight or advice as to how I might achieve this with mysql?
Thanks

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