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Reputation: 2148

What units does ST_DISTANCE return?

In Cosmos DB, what is the units for the value returned by the ST_DISTANCE function? The docs are unhelpful in this regard:

Returns the distance between the two GeoJSON Point, Polygon, or LineString expressions.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1241

Answers (2)

RKURUNGAT
RKURUNGAT

Reputation: 23

refer this official doc from MS in which they have mentioned it as in meters. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/sql-query-st-distance

Upvotes: 0

Jay Gong
Jay Gong

Reputation: 23792

Actually,I did not find any official statements for the exact units by the ST_DISTANCE function in the documents as same as you. But I use the example in the link to test with sql query.

SQL:

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And I calculate the distance between the two coordinates with online tool.

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Based on the results of test, I think the unit of the function is meter.Of course, you could commit feedback to verify the conclusion.

Upvotes: 1

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