What is a SPATIAL INDEX and when should I use it?

Question

Like most of the average PHP web developers I use MySql as a RDBMS. MySql (as other RDBMS also) offers SPATIAL INDEX features, but I\'m don\'t get it very well. I have googled f

Answer 1

You can use a spatial index for indexing geo-objects - shapes. The spatial index makes it possible to efficiently search for objects that overlap in space