Is there a person at 53.438522,14.52198?
Nope.
Is there a person at 53.438522,14.52199?
Nope.
Is there a person at 53.438522,14.52199?
Yeah, here’s Johnny!
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Not too useful.
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Give me nearby homies.
Within the range of 1 km
there is:
• Al Gore (53.438625,14.52103)
• Bill Clinton (53.432531,14.55127)
• Johnny Bravo (53.438286,14.52363)
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Now that’s better.
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Geoindexing.
Nothing new.
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Oracle, PostreSQL,
Lucene/Solr, even MySQL
(via extensions)
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SELECT c.holding_company, c.location
FROM competitor c,
bank b
WHERE b.site_id = 1604
AND SDO_WITHIN_DISTANCE(c.location,
b.location,
’distance=2 unit=mile’) = ’TRUE’
ORACLE