Closed cportele closed 1 year ago
Hi, What about using North South East West (relative to the center of the bounding box) I believe that would always work
There can be a discussion on what the correct wording should be. In effect the intended meaning of the existing spec is to follow GeoJSON, where the bbox is always [west, south, east, north]
. And when crossing the antimeridian the numeric value of west
is allowed to be larger than the numeric value of east
Should we added as a comment in a specific question or should we added to some sort of FAQ?
Call 11/7:
We should update our wording here - we use minimum and maximum, while geojson does east/west.
Issue for geoparquet is that there's non-geographic CRS's.
Consensus is to clarify that for geographic CRS's we follow GeoJSON, and update the spec. And to say 'less' on the non-geographic crs's, perhaps just something about being up to the client / crs.
@tschaub to take a pass and write a PR, we can continue review / discussion there.
Currently the specification says:
"Minimum" and "maximum" are not correct for cases where the bbox crosses the dateline, at least if GeoJSON is used as the basis. See GeoJSON 5.2, the following is a rough bbox for the Fiji archipelago, spanning 5 degrees of longitude:
[177.0, -20.0, -178.0, -16.0]
.If GeoJSON is followed, the wording should be updated/clarified. If it should be strictly minimum/maximum, then the GeoJSON reference should be removed.
Happy to create a PR for review, but it would help to understand the intention for GeoParquet. I personally would prefer the first option and be consistent with GeoJSON, which is also what is used in OGC API Features and I think STAC.