[Geojson] boundedBy?

[Sean Gillies]

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> one thing I am currently missing in GeoJSON is the ability to specify a
> boundedBy property, i.e. the box which encompasses the whole geometry.
> 
> In GML this can be specified using a boundedBy property which contains a Box
> geometry.
> 
> Ofcourse OpenLayers can also calculate the bounds for you in javascript, but
> it might be useful to have the server do this for some use cases.
> 
> Has this been discussed before?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart

Bart,

I'm going to be putting bounds on my features and collections like this:

{"bounds": [minx, miny, maxx, maxy], ...}

How does that strike you?

Sean