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 16.3 Supported Spatial Data Formats
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* gis-wkt-format               Well-Known Text (WKT) Format
* gis-wkb-format               Well-Known Binary (WKB) Format
 
 This section describes the standard spatial data formats that are used
 to represent geometry objects in queries. They are:
 
    * Well-Known Text (WKT) format
 
    * Well-Known Binary (WKB) format
 
 Internally, MySQL stores geometry values in a format that is not
 identical to either WKT or WKB format.
 

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