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[REQUEST] Introduce Coordinate Types
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Graph Databases are often paired with GeoSpacial data. It would be nice to support the creation of and storage of coordinate types in the native form for the graph database in question. This requires some design because right now we do not give an opportunity for the database connector to be part of the property creation phase. How does that work? Do they? Do we just create the coordinate and give the connector the space to map that to the database however they think is best?
We will also have to add a coordinate schema type(s).
Describe the solution you'd like
I think it would be ideal if nodestream exposed a !coordinate
Value Provider that worked like this:
# x, y (z) coordinates
- type: properties
properties:
coordinates: !coordinate
x: !jmespath location.coordinate.x
y: !jmespath location.coordinate.y
z: !jmespath location.coordinate.z
# lat, long, h coordinates (WGS84)
- type: properties
properties:
coordinates: !coordinate
latitude: !jmespath location.coordinate.lat
longitude: !jmespath location.coordinate.long
height: !jmespath location.coordinate.height
# geojson encoding https://geojson.org/
- type: properties
properties:
coordinates: !coordinate
geojson: !jmespath location.coordinate
Describe alternatives you've considered The best you have the option to do now is map three properties for x,y,z which limits what can be done natively in the graph.