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Nick Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a way to find out more than the nearest ten mappers to me?
>
> Not currently but I think this would make a nice API feature, I've had
> the same wish when organising mapping parties in the past.
>
> We're using MySQL 5.*, so the current lat, lon field in the user table
> could be migrated to a geometry point column to allow bbox queries of
> users.
Not usefully it couldn't. The users table is an InnoDB table and
you can't have geo indexes on point columns in Inno tables.
It doesn't matter though as there are so few users it isn't an
issue at the moment, and when it is we can always tile them like
the other tables with geo coords.
Tom
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