[udig-devel] uDIG/GeoTools data

[Jody Garnett]

I think Andrea summed it up perfectly...

As a GeoTools developer I would love to have you try and use MySQL (the 
QA and improvements are much needed). But in terms of your project being 
a success MySQL is just not the way to go. This is totally aside from 
the MySQL/Postgres fanboy debates; MySQL has added the spatial data 
types have been added but the "oomph" to make it a serious solution just 
is not there.

Let us know if you go to the MySQL root so we can be sure you have svn 
access, there is a datastore/featuresource available but you would be 
the first person to consider using it in a couple of years.

Cheers,
Jody
> We're just about to start development of an RCP application which will 
> use uDIG. The main data store for the application is likely to be 
> MySql and it'd be really handy to be able to include the GIS data in 
> the database along with the normal data using MySql's spatial extensions.
>
> So, has anyone had any experiences with MySql's spatial extensions 
> (i.e. good/bad?) and does anyone know if there is a 
> datastore/featuresource available?
>
> Dave S-B
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