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Calculating distance in WGS84 (MySQL and Geoserver)

Here is the environment in which I work: An application using geo-referenced data Database MySQL 5.5, storing georeferenced points A Geoserver server, connected to the MySQL database Here is the ...
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Why is GeoNetwork not displaying any maps?

I've just installed GeoNetwork 2.6.4 on CentOS 6.2 using MySQL as the database backend. Now, when I go to the web interface, I see the main web site, but no maps are displayed. On the geonetwork ...
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Creating an Address Locator with a Database of Geo Information

I am trying to build an Address Locator for ArcGIS 10.1. I would like to use a Microsoft Server MySQL database where location information is stored using an alias, an address, and XY coordinates. What ...
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Check Geodatabase attribute against an external database

I have a Personal Geodatabase to which editors enter values from some field inputs. I would like some of the entries, eg Project No ( whose name is unique and has some some related attributes like ...
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How can I improve my Ray casting algorithm?

I have been using the following function below which have been working well to decide if a point in the polygon but once I have many points which is building the polygon say over few thousand it seems ...
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Different results given by PostGIS and MySQL?

I'm developing a spatial database of administrative areas. I started out with PostGIS, but as MySQL is being used in our other projects, I thought I would at least try to create a spatial-enabled ...
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How to access mysql data from python built-in console?

I'm writing a QGIS Plugin, and somewhere I want to present data from a MySQL database. It's simple data(strings,etc), not Geospatial, or vector data. I'm familiar with querying databases from python ...
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How to populate ESRI GeoPortal programmatically?

I'm trying to find either some documentation or an example of how to manually populate the GeoPortal metadata datastore. I'm using a MySQL backend. Given a ISO XML file I can manually harvest it but ...
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Solve Mysql Spatial error

Converting shp2mysql will leads an null value in geom filed. how to rectify the the problem. shp2mysql -s 32643 landuse landuse LIS >landuse.sql
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OpenLayers & MySQL

I have a MySQL database full of data about students (name, age, school, university, city, etc). What I want to do is to transform the data I got to markers on the map. To be more specific, I will for ...
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How to make some constraint to be evaluated first in mysql?

SELECT BusinessID FROM tableauxiliary WHERE MBRContains( GeomFromText ( 'MULTIPOINT(-6.1928749092968 106.7651250907,-6.1771250907032 106.7808749093)' ), ...
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refactoring an XSLT processor with minor changes

having an extremely large xml-file - which is derived from the field of geo informatics. i got it from a German subsite or the OpenStreetMap-Project: the Geograpical-Engineering-site that deilvers a ...
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Geoserver - Key Authentication against a MySql Database

I am trying to implement a token based security scheme with Geoserver. What we need to do is send the client a license key when they log into our primary application. This license key is generated by ...
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How to add attribute from analysis to database mySQL?

I need to prepare a GIS for a customer. They insist to use a MySQL-Database (not the best option, I know). They need to digitize some geometries (areas) and add some attributes. The geometries and ...
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How to add vertices to existing linestrings in mysql?

Is it possible to add a Point at the end of a Linestring in MySql? For example I have a Linestring as Linestring(1 2, 1 4, 1 6) and I want to add a Point Point(1 7) at the end (output should ...
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how to use ArcGIS cloud hosted map with custom data from mysql

I have map hosted on ArcGIS.com which I can use and embed in my webpage. I have few tables with latitude-longitude in mysql. is there anyway I can add it as marker overlay layer on map taken from ...
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How to export Spatial data from MsSQL to MySQL using OpenSource/Free tools

I have a few tables with geometry fields in MsSQL Server 2008. I would like to export the whole table with data to MsSQL Server. Are there any open source/free tools that does this job?
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Qgis Mysql data import and show on the map based on coordinates

I have a mysql table with points with some attributes (name, lat, long, elevation, ect...) I import to Qgis with the Add Raster -> Database -> Mysql function. The connection is succesfull and I can ...
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Implementing custom (Vincenty/Haversine formula) functions for MySQL vs Using PostGIS?

I currently am using MySQL for all of my relational data. I have hit a crossroads with geo calculations. Since, MySQL does not have good support for spatial functions, I am contemplating on using ...
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How to find points, sort them based on closeness, and get 1-20, 21-40, etc. Efficiently using Myisam and mysql

Note: In this question I want actual mysql command that I should send. Not concept, and stuff. This question is similar with how to find 20 closest points efficiently However in that question I ...
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How to add RTree index to myISAM

I used PhPMyadmin I click add index and what I see is Action Keyname Type Unique Packed Field Cardinality Collation Null Comment Edit Drop PRIMARY BTREE Yes No BusinessID 2 ...