Geospatial Objects

Points

A point can be any record that has fields containing the longitude and latitude of a geospatial point.

Shapes

Kinetica supports the following WKT types: Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLine, MultiPolygon, and GeometryCollection. Examples of WKT include:

POINT (1 1)
MULTILINESTRING ((1 1, 2 2, 3 3),(-3 -3, -2 -2, -1 -1, 0 0))
GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(4 6),LINESTRING(4 6,7 10))

Tracks

Tracks are a collection of points which represent the path an object takes across the map. Unlike a WKT multiline string, each point in a track has an associated timestamp. Taken together: the longitude, latitude, and timestamp in each record describe where the object was at a given time. Tables containing tracks must have a column type of unrestricted string and be named TRACKID, where all the points in a track contain the same trackid.

Important

Join views cannot be used to render tracks.

Labels

Labels are text labels located at specified positions on the map. Each label can optionally be enclosed in a box and can have a line pointing to a specific location.