Does MongoDB support GIS geofencing with $geoWithin? - mongodb

Question

I would like to have a MongoDB collection and each document contains a geospatial polygon defined by latitude/longitude points (in GeoJSON). Then, I would like to take any given longitude/latitude point and check if it resides within any of the MongoDB polygons defined in the documents. Hypothetically, this is what the documents would look like.
{
"type" : "congressional",
"points" : [
{ "coords" : [
-141.0205,
70.0187 ]
},
...
{ "coords" : [
-141.0205,
70.0187 ]
}
]
}
Or maybe like so:
{ loc :
{ type : "Polygon" ,
coordinates : [ [ [ 0 , 0 ] , [ 3 , 6 ] , [ 6 , 1 ] , [ 0 , 0 ] ] ]
} }
And then I would query it, hypothetically, like so (most likely with Mongo's $geoWithin):
db.places.find( { loc : { $geoWithin : { $geometry : "EACH DOCUMENT IN COLLECTION"} } } )
Is geofencing, or something similar, possible to do with the current MongoDB feature-set? If so, how would it be done?

Answer 1

I believe you would have to first find every document from the collection., and then make a "$geoWithin" query for every document, passing in the Polygon to test against for each case.
Depending on the number of documents in your collection, that may or may not provide sufficient performance.

Answer 2

MongoDB has full support for geofencing or finding documents whose geometry intersects with a given geometry (point, polygon). The query below is an example. geometry of Collection is the field containing the geometry.
Document Example:
{ "geometry": {
"type": "Polygon",
"coordinates": [
[
[
-74.001487,
40.692346
],
[
-74.001755,
40.692057
],
[
-74.000977,
40.691951
],
[
-74.000827,
40.692297
],
[
-74.001487,
40.692346
]
]
]
}
}
JS Query:
//find quests bots that matches the users location
await Collection.find({ geometry:
{ $geoIntersects:
{
{
type: "Point",
coordinates: [
-73.99460599999999,
40.7347229
]
}
}
}
});