[gdal-dev] What do people think of the MySQL Spatial Extensions?

[Lucena, Ivan]

Russell McOrmond wrote:
> I am aware of PostGIS, Oracle Spatial and ArcSDE.  I only became aware
> that MySQL had extensions as well very recently (My brother started at
> Pythian).
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-gis-conformance-and-compatibility.html
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mysql.html
> 
> Are there people in this list that use this extensively, and can give
> some comparisons to other databases/etc?
> 
> Thanks!
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Russell,

If you want a Geospatial extension to MySQL you can use TerraLib from terralib.org. It implements 
its own simple features and raster data model not only in MySQL but in some other rdbms.

Regards,

Ivan