MySQL Find Polygon Nearest to Point

Question

I have a MySQL database that contains geo-tagged objects. The objects are tagged by using a bounding polygon that the user draws and my program exports into the database. Th

Answer 1

It appears as though this question is very similar Get polygons close to a lat,long in MySQL.

I am going to write some application-level code to do an interatively-widening search on the distance in the linked question.