Question

I’m working with some Google maps bounding box lon/lat points and need to find all the records in a MySql database with lon/lat’s that reside within that box.

Any help would be amazing!

Here’s the data I’m playing with:

((-30.14348404555906,132.20886239843753),(-27.740202928232875,135.99914560156253))

Answer 1

without any other geo index, you need to go through all the records in your database to see if it falls in that box

-30.14348404555906 < lat < -27.740202928232875

and

132.20886239843753 < lng < 135.99914560156253

If you need to do lots of these kind of operations and your database is big, I recommend you use some geospatial structures like rtree and k-d tree, or consider using lucene/solr