[ale] Decimal Degrees in MySQL

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Mar 12 16:11:36 EDT 2008


Can someone tell me the best way to store decimal degrees in MySQL?

I want to create columns named ddlat and ddlon.  I'm not sure if I
should use a float,double, or just a string.

Decimal Degrees is formated like this:

(-)XXX.XXXXXX

Chris




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