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Geospatial & Survey

Bounding Box

Geographic extrema, center, and spherical width/height of a point set.

Geospatial & Survey

Geographic extrema, center, and spherical width/height of a point set.

App id: GEO-15. Reference version 1.0.

How to fill it

Add rows as you need them. The tool uses every row you enter.

On the tool screen, Calc is the working sheet. Presets stores values you reuse. Reference is the formula, assumptions, and provenance below.

Formula

N/S/E/W = min/max; width, height from mid-lat haversine

Inputs

NameUnit
Latitude (camera)deg
Longitude (camera)deg

Outputs

NameUnit
North (hero result)deg
Southdeg
Eastdeg
Westdeg
Center latitudedeg
Center longitudedeg
Widthm
Heightm

Diagnose

This tool does not attach diagnose observations.

Assumptions

  • Simple min/max in longitude. Not a geodesic minimum bounding rectangle.

Provenance

  • Does not wrap the antimeridian. Width is east–west at the mean latitude.

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