jcrip wrote:
> I found your first answer succinct. Working on two
projects one for work -
> Oracle question and playing around with my personal web
site mySQL and Google
> maps.
i found mysql's spatial bits limited (for instance, if i
recall right, it's
early point-in-polygon searches were simple bounding box,
which is kind of iffy
for really complex polygons) compared to postGIS.
> Just trying to get a feel for what is hype and what is
real about spatial
> databases. At work we are installing ArcSDE now.
not sure what you mean, "what is hype and what is real about
spatial databases"?
they all do pretty much what they're supposed to do, some
betters than others.
some have more "value" than others--when you get into big GIS
applications, s/w
cost isn't a really big "value" issue, the data & what
you're managing usually
cost 1000x what the s/w cost. some work more easily w/cf than
others but all the
ones i have used can work w/it one way or another.