What is the equivalent of DbGeography in EF core?

Question

What is the equivalent of DbGeography in EF core?
I want to convert the following code from EF to EF Core:

using System.Data.Entity.Spatial;

namespace Domain
{
    public class City
    {
        public int CityId { get; set; }
        
        public DbGeography Coordinates { get; set; }
    }
}

Vortical

Answer 1

You have to use NetTopologySuite with EF Core and there is list of libraries which enables that for specific Data Provider: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/spatial

Onia

Answer 2

In order to use spatial data with EF Core, we need to install the appropriate supporting NuGet package.
For example Spatial NuGet Package of Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer is Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.NetTopologySuite
Then we can use this spatial types:

• Geometry
• Point
• LineString
• Polygon
• GeometryCollection
• MultiPoint
• MultiLineString
• MultiPolygon

By default, spatial properties are mapped to geography columns in SQL Server.
To use geometry, we configure the column type in our model.

Vortical