wondering if any of you wankers were playing with it. It doesn't seem
/me waves
At the cost of sounding cliché, me too!
like it has support for MySQL's spatial datatypes/functions
unfortunately. I was hoping to be able to throw up a geo app quickly
yet avoid the amaturish thing of storing x and y coordinates in double
It's often quicker that way (database wise).
fields. I'm thinking about trying to extend rails to support these
datatypes but wanted to see if anyone was doing similar work first.
Not that I know of, interesting idea. Ping the Rails list?
As a relative new Rails developer, but thoroughly assimilated, I have been
curious about this too. It might be something fairly easy to add if you're
very familiar with the geospatial features in MySQL. I'm still looking at
the geo functions in MySQL, and haven't had a chance to interface with it
directly yet, but I'm interested. Perhaps we can team up and chunk out some
code. Have you put together a small team or found something existing yet?
Kevin
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