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From Tim Perdue
Subject Latitude / Longitude
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Msg-id 20020912124426.A27570@mail.perdue.net
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Responses Re: [SQL] Latitude / Longitude  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
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Hi Folks -

I'm working on a global weather database for a client and have hit an issue
which I'm sure has been solved before. Unfortunately, the site search doesn't
pull up anything.

Essentially, I've got two tables, one with city/county/lat/long and another
with lat/long/weather data.

None of the lat/longs in the two tables match up directly, so I can't do a
simple join of the two tables. I need to join on closest proximity on the
lat/long fields.

Any suggestions? It seems to me this will be pretty expensive on CPU resources
unless there's a really elegant trick uncovered.

Tim

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