The Well-Known Text (WKT) representation of Geometry is designed to exchange geometry data in ASCII form. For a Backus-Naur grammar that specifies the formal production rules for writing WKT values, see the OpenGIS specification document referenced in Section 12.18, “Spatial Extensions”.
Examples of WKT representations of geometry objects:
A Point:
POINT(15 20)
Note that point coordinates are specified with no separating
comma. This differs from the syntax for the SQL
POINT() function, which
requires a comma between the coordinates. Take care to use
the syntax appropriate to the context of a given spatial
operation. For example, the following statements both
extract the X-coordinate from a Point
object. The first produces the object directly using the
POINT() function. The second
uses a WKT representation converted to a
Point with
GeomFromText().
mysql>SELECT X(POINT(15, 20));+------------------+ | X(POINT(15, 20)) | +------------------+ | 15 | +------------------+ mysql>SELECT X(GeomFromText('POINT(15 20)'));+---------------------------------+ | X(GeomFromText('POINT(15 20)')) | +---------------------------------+ | 15 | +---------------------------------+
A LineString with four points:
LINESTRING(0 0, 10 10, 20 25, 50 60)
Note that point coordinate pairs are separated by commas.
A Polygon with one exterior ring and one
interior ring:
POLYGON((0 0,10 0,10 10,0 10,0 0),(5 5,7 5,7 7,5 7, 5 5))
A MultiPoint with three
Point values:
MULTIPOINT(0 0, 20 20, 60 60)
A MultiLineString with two
LineString values:
MULTILINESTRING((10 10, 20 20), (15 15, 30 15))
A MultiPolygon with two
Polygon values:
MULTIPOLYGON(((0 0,10 0,10 10,0 10,0 0)),((5 5,7 5,7 7,5 7, 5 5)))
A GeometryCollection consisting of two
Point values and one
LineString:
GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(10 10), POINT(30 30), LINESTRING(15 15, 20 20))

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