[geomesa-users] Null geometry field values

[David Boyd <dboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All:

   I remember discussing this once before but want to follow up to see 
if there is a work around or
something I am missing.

   Currently, geomesa requires every feature type/schema to have a 
geometry field with a valid value. This makes sense
since that is the primary element of the indexing approach.

   I have two issues that I need to address:

1.  Data with empty or null geometry values.
2. Data types without native geometry fields.

The first instance is the most common.  Currently my hack for that 
stores either a point for the south pole
or a bounding box very small at the south pole.

However, this bothers some people and even me to some extent because it 
is fake data, and can get returned
in a geometry search.

Are there plans or what would it take to have geomesa accept a null 
geometry field.   It would be a special case
in the indexing that would require a specific bucket/partition for those 
records.   But in the end it would be little
different in terms of index distribution than what I am doing now.

The advantage would be none of this fake data would get returned in 
queries and one could actually query for
all records with empty geometries.   This would all work for all support 
geometry types.

Thoughts.

FYI - in the second instance I end up adding a fake field with the same 
fake values.


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