mongoose $near populate ignored

I hope some one can help me - i want to populate a subdocument with a geo query to sort them:

i've got these models (simplified):

(a lot of articles):

   var articleSchema = mongoose.Schema({
      places: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "places", required: false }],
      someData: { type: String, required: true },
})

(a lot of places):

var placeSchema = mongoose.Schema({
   longitudelatitude: {
      type: { type: String, required: true },
      coordinates: [
       { type: Number, required: true }, //longitude 
       { type: Number, required: true }  //latitude 
       ]},
   someData: { type: String, required: true }
})

my first query to find only places near a Position works fine:

getPlacesNearBy: function (lng, lat, skipNumber, limitNumber, callback) {
   Place.find({
     longitudelatitude: {
        $near: {
            $geometry: { type: "Point", coordinates: [lng, lat] },}}
        }, null, {skip: skipNumber, limit: limitNumber}, function (err, foundPlaces) {
            if (err)
                return callback(err, null);
            return callback(null, foundPlaces);
        })
    },

i get places near me - i can choose with limit how many - and i can reload some more with skip

now i wanted to do something similar:

i want to get an article - and populate the stored places (where you can get them) AND AFTER THAT i want to sort the places by distance and maybe to skip or limit the Response

so i tryed:

getPlacesforArticle: function (articleId, lng, lat, skipNumber, limitNumber, callback) {
    var projection = null;
    Article.findById(articleId, {places: 1}).populate("places", projection, {
        longitudelatitude: {
            $near: {
                $geometry: { type: "Point", coordinates: [lng, lat] },
            }
        }
    }, {skip: skipNumber, limit: limitNumber}).exec(function (getError, foundArticle) {
        if (getError)
             return callback(getError, null);
        callback(null, foundArticle.places);
        });
    }
},

So this query is working (throw no error) but it doesnt response what i want - i get places but they are "ordered" by database sequenze not by distance - so the $near seems to be ignored (tested without this query brings same result) but when i filter to some other content that works fine (like Name="test") also the limit is working but i cant skip some places of this response...

well i hope some one understand me and can help me =)!

thank you very much!

via xyz-Mann