Feature: Support more formats for latitude and longitude about surrealdb

[Adithya2907]

Thank you for pointing me to the necessary files @koobitor. I'll get started with implementing the parser so that more formats for latitudes and longitudes are accepted.

[Hirdey-1999]

I can help with the issue but can you please expand with the issue

[Adithya2907]

I would like to contribute to the project, and I feel that this issue would be a great place to start. Can I work on this problem, and how do I get started with it?

[koobitor]

Hi Guy,

That i understand right now surrealdb is not support string containing a pair of coordinates input should parse to Point with longitude as X and latitude as Y (natural map orientation) will enable to query.

Ref issue on #91 able to query with multipolygon right now.

This issue need to write parser form latlon string to coordinates format.

Can see more example on this

Best regards,
Koobitor

[Adithya2907]

@tobiemh, @rushmorem I've gone through the codebase, and have a good understanding of the database engine now. I would like to get started with creating the parser to support more formats as mentioned before.
For this, do I create a new file, similar to datetime.rs and duration.rs, or do I define it inside the geometry.rs file itself?

[drdozer]

Hi - i saw this issue and thought it may be bite-sized. I've got surrealdb to compile. Is there a partial solution for this already implemented that I can help with or should I start from scratch?

[clarkmcc]

Hi @rushmorem, I've added support for parsing two of the example formats you specified (decimal degrees, or degree decimals). It would be great if I could get an intermediate review to make sure I'm on the right track before I add support for the remaining formats.

[clarkmcc]

I've added support for DD and DMS formats. Should be ready for review!

[rushmorem]

/cc @tobiemh