Add support for Spatial Data types in OData

[LianwMS]

Currently, there is no support for spatial data types in Web API OData.
Consider adding support for this as it makes impossible to develop any service
that has to deal with spatial data.

Work Item Details

Original CodePlex Issue: Issue 1010
Status: Active
Reason Closed: Unassigned
Assigned to: Unassigned
Reported on: Apr 25, 2013 at 10:00 PM
Reported by: jacalvar
Updated on: Nov 24, 2014 at 10:41 AM
Updated by: jyparask

[LianwMS]

On 2013-05-02 04:25:39 UTC, yishaigalatzer commented:

We will prioritize this against other feature work for RTM. For now assigning to be developed in RTM

[LianwMS]

On 2014-07-28 23:54:56 UTC, TimMc commented:

Please fix this!

[congysu]

Related issues: #101, #434

[nirinchev]

I've written a blog post that proposes a workaround for working with spatial data in Web API OData. Unfortunately, it requires slight modifications to ClrCanonicalFunctions and FilterBinder to add support for spatial queries (geo.distance and so on). Do you think it would be reasonable change to push upstream? I'd be happy to send a PR for that.

[xuzhg]

@nirinchev

Warmly welcome your PR for spatial support.

Best Regards.
Sam Xu

[xuzhg]

See the commit: 7916898

Please re-open it if you have further concern.