This week I was preparing the exercises for our MySQL/MariaDB for Beginners training. One of the exercises of the training is about MySQL spatial (GIS) features. I always tell customers: “With these features you can answer questions like: Give me all points of interest around me!”
Now I wanted to try out how it really works and if it is that easy at all…
To get myself an idea of what I want to do I did a little sketch first:
| | My position |
| | Shops |
| | Restaurants |
| | Cafes … |
