Building Geospatial GraphQL APIs By Leveraging GraphQL Database Integrations - William Lyon, Neo4j
Building Geospatial GraphQL APIs By Leveraging GraphQL Database Integrations - William Lyon, Neo4j In this talk we explore how to work with geospatial data in GraphQL with a focus on geospatial database integrations for GraphQL. We will cover how to model spatial data types such as points, lines, and polygons in GraphQL and cover some use cases for working with geospatial data in your API such as spatial search, location-based recommendations, and routing. We will learn how to leverage geospatial database functionality through GraphQL-database integrations such as PostGIS and Neo4j. GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools. Get Started Here: https://graphql.org/