MySQL 8.0 GIS

Having recently upgraded to a new server for many of my research websites, I have blogged about MySQL 8.0 spatial indexing and migrating from earlier versions. During many hours of trying to get everything to work, I discovered that much of my GPS data is bloated with linestrings full of duplicate adjacent points. The primary… Continue reading MySQL 8.0 GIS

An epic “data” merge

I blogged during an epic merge that took a couple weeks to complete in which I reconciled code changes between a development system and a production system which had diverged significantly over a period of a few years. Today is the day I’m going to try to tackle the corresponding data merge mentioned in that… Continue reading An epic “data” merge