The bounding box query for SQL is(Using PDO) $sql ="SELCT bussid FROM tablename WHERE(latitude BETWEEN ? AND ? )AND (longitude BETWEEN ? AND ?)"; $stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql); // Assign parameters $stmt->bindParam(1,$minLat); $stmt->bindParam(2,$maxLat); $stmt->bindParam(3,$minLng); $stmt->bindParam(4,$maxLng); WHERE parameters come from top left and bottom right of rectangle