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The smallest rectangle, parallel to the coordinate axes, enclosing a given figure.

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How to find the minimum-area-rectangle for given points?

The following is another problem that I am working on it these days. As you see in the figure, (BTW, I tried to make it self-presenter) the question is: How to find the minimum-area-rectangle (MAR) ...
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How to compute the bounding box of multiple layers in lat/long?

I am writing an application to performance test all kinds of map services, primarily AGS 9.x, AGS 10, and WMS 1.x. Part of the application involves generating random bounding boxes for individual ...
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Select bounding box using postgis

I want to create a query to select all ways and their nodes that exist within a bounding box using postGIS. The bounding box shall includes all details as osmosis "--bounding-box" command will ...
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How to calculate polygon length and width using open source GIS?

How can I calculate the length and with of polygons using open source tools? By "polygon length" I mean the length of the longest line within the polygon (update: to be correct, I just need the ...
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Question Regarding Interpretation of Openlayers BBOX in 4326 Projection

I have a BBOX strategy in my Vector layer, which is sending HTTP GET Requests to my server in order to get the features I wish to display. The projection of the layer is EPSG:4326, so it is my ...
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Bounding box for PostGIS table

Is there an easy way to get the bounding box for an entire table in PostGIS? Thanks
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How to find bounding coordinates (lat/long) for UTM zones?

I want to error check incoming lat/lng points by checking if the point resides within the given UTM zone. (This would work for the data im using because sometimes there is a missing sign or lat/lng is ...