Sorting users by distance in mysql using st_distance
问题 I've done a bit of reading on this but there's hardly any information on doing it using points and the st_distance function in mysql. I suppose this makes sense since according to http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=70494 it wasn't even documented until halfway through last year. Almost every solution I've seen instead uses separate long and lat columns, and then puts them into the haversine formula like this: sorting distance in MySQL PHP This seems like a really messy way of doing it though