GeoSearch against stored Bounding Box

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Hi,
all I've been through the query/filter documentation, and have seen
the ability to search for points in a bounding box.

My domain problem is subtlely different. I am storing bounding boxes,
and want to find the box that contains the search point.

Storing the 4 corners of the box and searching against them won't give
me my answer: that would return a distance - and I can't determine yes/
no bounds from that.

I guess the same situation would apply to stored polygons. If we have
the world's countries stored as polygons we may want to find the
country that contains a particular lat/long. Or we may have a
database of aerial imagery, and we may want to find any images that
cover a particular lat/long.

Most grateful for any clarification on this,
Cheers,
Ian

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There isn't support for matching on stored bounding boxes. It has been discussed in the mailing list before, it will require adding a new type of filter, which expects to get the locations for the bounding box fields, and then do the checks.

On Friday, February 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM, ian mayo wrote:

Hi,
all I've been through the query/filter documentation, and have seen
the ability to search for points in a bounding box.

My domain problem is subtlely different. I am storing bounding boxes,
and want to find the box that contains the search point.

Storing the 4 corners of the box and searching against them won't give
me my answer: that would return a distance - and I can't determine yes/
no bounds from that.

I guess the same situation would apply to stored polygons. If we have
the world's countries stored as polygons we may want to find the
country that contains a particular lat/long. Or we may have a
database of aerial imagery, and we may want to find any images that
cover a particular lat/long.

Most grateful for any clarification on this,
Cheers,
Ian

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New issue (feature request) added to GitHub
cheers Shay,
Ian

On Feb 26, 7:32 pm, Shay Banon kim...@gmail.com wrote:

There isn't support for matching on stored bounding boxes. It has been discussed in the mailing list before, it will require adding a new type of filter, which expects to get the locations for the bounding box fields, and then do the checks.