---
title: geo.toRows() function
description: >
  `geo.toRows()` pivots fields into columns based on time.
menu:
  flux_v0_ref:
    name: geo.toRows
    parent: experimental/geo
    identifier: experimental/geo/toRows
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flux/v0/tags: [transformations, geotemporal]
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`geo.toRows()` pivots fields into columns based on time.

Latitude and longitude should be stored as fields in InfluxDB.
Because most `geo` package transformation functions require rows to have
`lat` and `lon` columns, `lat` and `lot` fields must be pivoted into columns.

##### Function type signature

```js
(<-tables: stream[A]) => stream[B] where A: Record, B: Record
```

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## Parameters

### tables

Input data. Default is piped-forward data (`<-`).




## Examples

### Pivot lat and lon fields into columns

```js
import "experimental/geo"

data
    |> geo.toRows()

```

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#### Input data

| _time                | *id   | *_field | _value   |
| -------------------- | ----- | ------- | -------- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | a213b | lat     | 14.01433 |
| 2021-01-02T01:00:00Z | a213b | lat     | 13.9228  |
| 2021-01-03T02:00:00Z | a213b | lat     | 15.08433 |

| _time                | *id   | *_field | _value  |
| -------------------- | ----- | ------- | ------- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | a213b | lon     | 39.7515 |
| 2021-01-02T01:00:00Z | a213b | lon     | 38.3527 |
| 2021-01-03T02:00:00Z | a213b | lon     | 36.9978 |


#### Output data

| _time                | *id   | lat      | lon     |
| -------------------- | ----- | -------- | ------- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | a213b | 14.01433 | 39.7515 |
| 2021-01-02T01:00:00Z | a213b | 13.9228  | 38.3527 |
| 2021-01-03T02:00:00Z | a213b | 15.08433 | 36.9978 |

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