My Quest:What data type should I use?
I want to upload the gps data into my MySQL DB. I also don’t know how long the longitude or latitude can be. Is it better to use VARCHAR.
I don’t want to use POINT because of some parse problems
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In MySQL, you can use as FLOAT( 9 , 6 ) NOT NULL.
Also check out this :- http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlajax.html
May be helpful for you.