Very cool, thanks for the pointer Paul. I'm working on several RoR
geo-based projects as I learn my way and this will be much better than
the "amateurish doubles" (well put ;) )


Andrew

On 2/1/06, Paul Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Like so, perhaps?
>
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/georuby
>
> On Feb 1, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Scott Davis wrote:
>
> > Any reason why you're not considering PostGIS to handle the
> > geodata? It's *way* more mature than the native MySQL stuff.
> >
> > http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/PostgreSQL
> >
> > So ActiveRecord/Postgres seems to be doable. Getting the PostGIS/
> > OGC data elements out seems to be the next hurdle. Java and C
> > bindings are native to the project. Maybe some SWIG magic to add
> > ActiveRecord support? Or as someone previously mentioned in this
> > thread, there are Ruby bindings for ogr2ogr out there in the wild.
> >
> > My $0.02,
> > s
> >
> > Scott Davis
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Tom Longson (nym) wrote:
> >
> >> No team, nothing found yet. I put out a call on the Ruby on Rails
> >> list.
> >>
> >> Would be interested in getting this knocked out at least for POINT.
> >>
> >> The syntax is dead simple imo.
> >>
> >> CREATE TABLE narf (egad POINT);
> >> INSERT INTO narf (GeomFromText('POINT(1 1)'));
> >> SELECT x(egad), y(egad) FROM narf;
> >>
> >> (I think that's it, I didn't double check the syntax)
> >>
> >> nym
> >>
> >> On 2/1/06, Kevin Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> 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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