Re: help with query thanks

Originally posted by Jess
> I have a long list of locations each with a latitude and longitude and
> I wish to select all that fall within an odd shaped boundary defined
> by lat and long points. I can select all within a radius of a point or
> all within a rectangle (the simple ones I guess) but need to select
> all within an odd shaped polygon such as as meandering river basin or
> a locality boundry. I will be using an sqlplus query to extract the
> locations. If OT please suggest a relavent group. I tried
> uk.education.maths but drew a blank.Thanks.
A search on Google came up with this:

http://www.alienryderflex.com/polygon/

You may also want to consider whether Oracle Spatial would be helpful.

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