Do all of this databases support other kind of information? can i
store user data as well (e.g username, birhtday,etc)?

On Nov 22, 2:13 pm, Andy R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another DB with spatial extensions:
>
> http://postgis.refractions.net/
> "PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-
> relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the
> PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial
> database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's
> SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple
> Features Specification for SQL" and has been certified as compliant
> with the "Types and Functions" profile. "
>
> There are GIS extension for DB/2 and Oracle too.
>
> On 22 Nov., 14:59, tanoshimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If you're not tied to MySQL, then you might want to check out SQL
> > Server 2008 as a backend database instead.
> > The new geometry and geography datatypes in SQL Server (including the
> > freely-available express edition) provide native methods to create,
> > store, and analyse points, linestrings, and polygons, including the
> > full range of OGC-compliant methods to test for e.g. whether a polygon
> > contains another features, touches it, crosses it, or is a a certain
> > distance away from it.
> > You can then conduct all your spatial analysis in the database, and
> > pass back the data to Google Maps to render as a front end.
>
> > sc0rpi0 wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > > After reading Pamela's tutorial about using php&mysql in google maps
> > > (http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?
> > > answer=65622&topic=11367&ctx=sibling) i was wondering how  would i do
> > > to represent a polygon in a mysql database instead of a single marker?
>
> > > Since each marker add a different key how would i connect different
> > > points to being from the same polygon?
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