Data type for latitude / longitude

[Alex Brown]

Using mongoose, what type would be best for latitude / longitude?

I'm going to do geospatial indexing etc...

[Victor Powell]

I would think just Number or [Number] . To the best of my knowledge, there is no special type for geolocation data. For more information it my help to read this : http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Geospatial+Indexing#GeospatialIndexing-MultilocationDocuments

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Alex Brown <al...@alexjamesbrown.com> wrote:

Using mongoose, what type would be best for latitude / longitude?

I'm going to do geospatial indexing etc...

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[Aaron Heckmann]

Use array syntax mentioned in the link. The object syntax isn't supported in mongoose.

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Using mongoose, what type would be best for latitude / longitude?

I'm going to do geospatial indexing etc...

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[Anthony Ettinger]

Its my understanding that array values are swapped: [ lng, lat ] 

Is this true?

[j...@team9.com.au]

Absolutely, especially if you're using a 2dsphere index.

You should probably also be aware of this issue if you're working with 2dsphere indexed [lng, lat] points:

https://github.com/LearnBoost/mongoose/issues/1668

[Anthony Ettinger]

how does the other data type work?

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[Jed Watson]

What do you mean by other data type?

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[Anthony Ettinger]

you said 2d, isn't there a 3d or something?