Re: Advice on geolocation

From: "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)acm(dot)org>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Advice on geolocation
Date: 2002-07-26 17:51:57
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0207261049050.27270-100000@main.cyber-office.net
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

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> My concern about this is that it will not be indexable. I suspect, but don't
> know, that this won't really be an issue for the small number (~5000) points
> of data (especially since I expect other constraints to be used in most
> queries).

Bruno, check out PostGIS a bit more. I believe you'll find that a lot of
the fuctionality you're wanting is there or coming soon. I think there is
even a distance function.

Rod
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"Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."

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