[Geojson] boundedBy?

[Bryan Lawrence]

Not that I'm following the discussion, but one definitely needs support for 
bounding polygons. Support for bounding boxes expressed as minx miny etc 
cause all sorts of problems near the poles in lat/lon.

Cheers
Bryan

On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:27:48 Sean Gillies wrote:
> 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
>
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