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The Spatial Info step measures each geometry and appends the measurements as columns. It is the equivalent of the Alteryx Spatial Info tool and runs in the workflow engine.

Measurements are WGS84 geodesic, not planar. This matters: the SQL form of these measures is a planar degrees² value scaled by an equatorial constant, and because that constant does not shrink with longitude as latitude rises, it overstates area and length — roughly a quarter high at US latitudes. Computing them geodesically gives one answer that matches Alteryx on every warehouse.

  • Source Table / Output Table — the input geometries and where the measured rows are written.
  • Geometry column — the WKT geometry column to measure.
  • Measurements — which measures to append. Each selection adds the columns below.
Measurement Columns Added Type
Area (miles) AreaSqMi number
Area (km) AreaSqKm number
Length (miles) LengthMi number
Length (km) LengthKm number
Centroid coordinates CentroidX, CentroidY number
Bounding rectangle coordinates BR_Left, BR_Top, BR_Right, BR_Bottom number
Centroid object Centroid WKT geometry
Bounding rectangle object BoundingRect WKT geometry
Bounding rectangle polygon BoundingRectPolygon WKT geometry

The bounding rectangle object and bounding rectangle polygon serialize to the same five-vertex ring in WKT, so both columns carry the same value.

Alteryx offers several further info types — object type, part count, point count, Peano key, and end-point coordinates — that have no verified Alteryx-parity definition here. They are skipped, and conversion emits a note naming the ones it dropped so the omission is visible in the converted workflow.