# GeoSearch against stored Bounding Box **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 24, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geosearch-against-stored-bounding-box/6801 "2012-02-24T16:05:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ian\_mayo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ian_mayo/32/2324_2.png) [@ian\_mayo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ian_mayo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geosearch-against-stored-bounding-box/6801/1 "2012-02-24T16:05:23Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geosearch-against-stored-bounding-box/6801/2 "2012-02-26T19:32:32Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![ian\_mayo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ian_mayo/32/2324_2.png) [@ian\_mayo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ian_mayo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geosearch-against-stored-bounding-box/6801/3 "2012-02-27T09:33:29Z")
New issue (feature request) added to GitHub cheers Shay, Ian On Feb 26, 7:32 pm, Shay Banon [kim...@gmail.com](mailto: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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geosearch-against-stored-bounding-box/6801/4 "2017-07-06T03:38:06Z")