Does applying a 2dsphere index on a mongoose schema force the location field to be required?

Question

I have a mongoose schema and model defined as follows:

var mongoose = require(\'mongoose\')
  , Schema = new mongoose.Schema({
      email: {
        index:          


        

Answer 1

The correct way to create a schema with geolocation and run geospartial queries was

var UserSchema = new Schema({
  location: {
    type: {
      type: String,
      enum: ["Point"], // 'location.type' must be 'Point'
    },
    coordinates: {
      type: [Number]
    }
  }
});

UserSchema.index({location: '2dsphere'});

Be careful this is important to do, the index 2dsphere in the location.coordinates, if you want to run geospartial queries!