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Sparse 5 |
Sparse 6 |
-*Please note that higher the sparse value, the slower the performance. Also, LIMIT and CURSOR are not available when using SPARSE.*
+*Please note that the higher the sparse value, the slower the performance. Also, LIMIT and CURSOR are not available when using SPARSE.*
**WHERE** - This option allows for filtering out results based on [field](#fields) values. For example
```nearby fleet where speed 70 +inf point 33.462 -112.268 6000``` will return only the objects in the 'fleet' collection that are within the 6 km radius **and** have a field named `speed` that is greater than `70`.
Multiple WHEREs are concatenated as **and** clauses. ```WHERE speed 70 +inf WHERE age -inf 24``` would be interpreted as *speed is over 70 and age is less than 24.*
The default value for a field is always `0`. Thus if you do a WHERE on the field `speed` and an object does not have that field set, the server will pretend that the object does and that the value is Zero.
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## Geofencing
-A [geofence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence) is a virtual boundary that can detect when an object enters or exits the area. This boundary can be a radius, bounding box, or a polygon. Tile38 can turn any standard search into a geofence monitor by adding by the FENCE keyword to the search.
+A [geofence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence) is a virtual boundary that can detect when an object enters or exits the area. This boundary can be a radius, bounding box, or a polygon. Tile38 can turn any standard search into a geofence monitor by adding the FENCE keyword to the search.
A simple example: