BoundingBox key in Geo API of Redis

Question

I am very happy so see that Redis now offers a Geo API

I would like to host a service where, given a latitude-longitude pair, I retrieve a bounding-box (of OSM) from a pgsql query. Since I expect queries to be done in the proximity of each other, I would like to cache the bounding-boxes.

Then, given a new latitude-longitude pair, I would like to use redis to see if the query coordinates fall into a bounding-box recently queried.

Does anybody know if the Geo API of Redis supports bounding boxes. Or maybe there is a different approach to make above task more efficient.

Answer 1

It seems like you have to work with radius/ distance, not bounding boxes. You can check if a previous point falls within a given distance to the new point using GEODIST or store all previous points and use the GEORADIUS to find all points within a given distance.