BigQuery Client - Class Geography (1.34.0)

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)'); 

Get the underlying value.

Get the type.

Format the value as a string.

Format the value as a string.