MySQL Find Polygon Nearest to Point
问题 I have a MySQL database that contains geo-tagged objects. The objects are tagged by using a bounding polygon that the user draws and my program exports into the database. The bounding polygon is stored in the database as a Polygon (the MySQL spatial extensions kind). I can think of a couple ways to do this, but I'm not very pleased with any of them, as this needs to be an efficient process that will execute fairly often, although on probably only < 50,000 records in the pertinent table. I