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geoSearch¶
-
geoSearch
¶ The
geoSearch
command provides an interface to MongoDB’s haystack index functionality. These indexes are useful for returning results based on location coordinates after collecting results based on some other query (i.e. a “haystack.”) Consider the following example:The above command returns all documents with a
type
ofrestaurant
having a maximum distance of 6 units from the coordinates[30,33]
in the collectionplaces
up to a maximum of 30 results.Unless specified otherwise, the
geoSearch
command limits results to 50 documents.