Database technology for selecting geospatial data within a region?

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I need to be able to store geographically keyed data and then select data from a specific geographical region, say a polygon (on the earth), to represent the user's field of view. Is there a (free) database technology that would allow me to do this kind of selection easily?

I just found this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/functions-for-testing-spatial-relations-between-geometric-objects.html#function_st-contains — user487100, Jan 11 '13 at 19:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '13 at 21:16

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For a client-server database solution theres PostGIS, for a lightweight local solution theres SpatiaLITE. Both free and open source.

answered Jan 11 '13 at 21:16

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Database technology for selecting geospatial data within a region?

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