In my previous post I’ve showed some new MySQL 5.6 features which can be very helpful when creating geo-enabled applications. In this post I will show how we can obtain open-source GIS data, convert it to MySQL and use it in our GEO-enabled applications. I will also present at the upcoming Percona Live conference on this topic.
Data sources (US)
For the U.S. we may look at 2 major data sources:
1. ZIP codes with latitude, longitude and zip code boundaries (polygon). This can be downloaded from the U.S. Census website: …
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