OData

Using Geospatial Data

October 17, 2011 Oct 17, 2011 10/17/11

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This CTP of WCF Data Services adds support for geospatial data. The release allows use of all of the OData geospatial data types and the geo.distance() canonical function. This enables two key scenarios: Read and write geospatial data (all types supported by Sql Server 2008 R2). Find all entities (i.e. coffee shops) near a location. Before I ...