I'm out of my element here so please forgive me if I dont ask this correctly/clearly.
I have a table of users with lat/long for each one.
I get a query from a federal agency that provides either a polygon or a circle like this:
<polygon>38.47,-120.14 38.34,-119.95 38.52,-119.74 38.62,-119.89 38.47,-120.14</polygon>
<circle>32.9525,-115.5527 0</circle>
Given either of these two inputs, I need to return all users within the polygon or circle.
I've looked all over, read all the mysql spatial docs etc. and I am either missing a step or just not grokking the query method.
ANY help would be appreciated!