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Geospatial data

Geospatial data

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Geospatial data

- As your Cosmos Db has built-in support for JSON data stored in accordance with the GeoJSON specification. This specification is a well-known format that was established in 2015 to standardize how people refer to locations in geometry shapes. Within the GeoJSON specification, a specific location is referred to as a point. And shapes are referred to as polygons. Cosmos Db has built-in functions that can help you create queries that take advantage of both points and polygons. Let's look at a basic point. At it's simplest, a point is a set of coordinates referencing a specific location on a plane. In many examples, you see the coordinates refer to latitude and longitude in our world. With that being said, coordinates don't have to refer to real world locations. If you have a specific map or drawing in your application, point to refer to a location in that. As far as queries are concerned, we typically try to find the…

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