Create Geometry/Geography Field from Latitude & Longitude fields (SQL Server)

Question

I have a view that contains two fields for latitude and longitude, and I would like to create a new view that converts these lat/lon fields into a geometry/geography field (

Answer 1

Juan's answer put me on the right track. When dealing with Geometry I initially used

geometry::Point([Latitude], [Longitude], 4326) as Geom

But when I tried to access the longitude with Geom.STX it would return the latitude value. And Geom.STY would actually return the longitude value.

I had to use

geometry::Point([Longitude], [Latitude], 4326) as Geom

Just wanted to provide this for anyone else that runs into some issues involving the geometry type.

Answer 2

  SELECT  *, 
          geography::STGeomFromText('POINT(' + 
                CAST([Longitude] AS VARCHAR(20)) + ' ' + 
                CAST([Latitude] AS VARCHAR(20)) + ')', 4326) as GEOM,

          geography::Point([Latitude], [Longitude], 4326) as SAME_GEOM

  FROM view_name 
  WHERE (latitude <> 0) AND (longitude <> 0)