Work with geospatial data in Bigtable

This page describes how to store and query geospatial data in Bigtable using the GoogleSQL geography functions. Geospatial data include geometrical representations of the Earth's surface in the form of points, lines, and polygons. You can group these entities into collections to track locations, routes, or other areas of interest.

Basic operations

The dedicated GoogleSQLgeography functions lets Bigtable optimize your database performance for geospatial calculations and query times. In the basic usage examples, we use a