BigQuery Client - Class Geography (1.30.2)

Reference documentation and code samples for the BigQuery Client class Geography.

Represents a value with a data type of Geography.

A value is expected to be in well-known text format, but there is no validation on client side. Polygons are oriented. It means that, for example, value POLYGON((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0)) represents a (almost) square region, and POLYGON((0 0, 0 1, 1 1, 1 0, 0 0)) represents the whole Earth surface except that square.

Example:

use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\BigQueryClient;

$bigQuery = new BigQueryClient();

$geography = $bigQuery->geography('POINT(30 60)');

Namespace

Google \ Cloud \ BigQuery

Methods

__construct

Parameter
Name Description
value string

The GEOGRAPHY data in WKT format.

get

Get the underlying value.

Returns
Type Description
string

type

Get the type.

Returns
Type Description
string

formatAsString

Format the value as a string.

Returns
Type Description
string

__toString

Format the value as a string.

Returns
Type Description
string