Geospatial functions in Athena engine version 2

This topic lists the ESRI geospatial functions that are supported starting in Athena engine version 2. For information about Athena engine versions, see Athena engine versioning.

Changes in Athena engine version 2

• The input and output types for some functions have changed. Most notably, the VARBINARY type is no longer directly supported for input. For more information, see Changes to geospatial functions.

• The names of some geospatial functions have changed. For more information, see Geospatial function name changes in Athena engine version 2.

• New functions have been added. For more information, see New geospatial functions in Athena engine version 2.

Athena supports the following types of geospatial functions:

Topics

• Constructor functions
• Geospatial relationship functions
• Operation functions
• Accessor functions
• Aggregation functions
• Bing tile functions
• Geospatial function name changes and new functions in Athena engine version 2