MongoDB geo distance/radius to useful units

Question

I\'m using MongoDB geospatial queries -- $near, geoNear, etc. -- and I\'d like to know how to turn the dis result of the geoNear

Answer 1

Note if you're using Mongodb version 2.6.0 there is a bug which always enables the new behavior for spherical coordinate systems to return distance in meters (based on WGS84 coordinates).

The documentation states that giving the $near parameter in legacy coordinates rather than GeoJSON should still return radians. This has been fixed in newer versions.

The bug report: Bug #13540