I have a locations
table that has many rows of locations and data. There are 2 columns inside of that - Longitude and Latitude. I want to find records from that table that are found in a defined map polygon area.
I have a second table that I just created based on some tutorials called polyThing
which has my defined boundary...
CREATE TABLE polyThing
(
`ID` int auto_increment primary key,
`boundary` polygon not null,
`testarea` varchar(200) NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO polyThing (boundary, testarea)
VALUES(
PolygonFromText(
'POLYGON((
-114.018522 46.855932 ,
-113.997591 46.856030 ,
-113.997447 46.848626 ,
-114.018161 46.848824 ,
-114.018522 46.855932 ))'
), 'Test Area 1'
);
I want to find records from locations
that are inside this defined polygon, and I've been trying queries similar to this. I get 0 records no matter what I try.
SELECT *
FROM locations
WHERE ST_CONTAINS(
(SELECT boundary FROM polyThing
WHERE polyThing.testarea = 'Test Area 1')
, Point(Longitude, Latitude))
Here is locations
table and data:
CREATE TABLE `locations` (
`LocationID` int(11) NOT NULL,
`Location` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
`Longitude` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
`Latitude` varchar(200) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT;
INSERT INTO `locations` (`LocationID`, `Location`, `Longitude`, `Latitude`) VALUES
(1, 'In the polygon', '-114.007191', '46.853019'),
(2, 'In the polygon', '-114.003798', '46.851045'),
(3, 'Not in', '-114.016934', '46.866098');
Love to get a nudge in the right direction.
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