GeoBounds

GeoBounds[g]

gives the ranges of latitudes and longitudes in the geo region g.

GeoBounds[g,δ]

pads ranges of latitudes and longitudes by ±δ.

GeoBounds[g,Scaled[s]]

pads range of latitudes and longitudes by a scaled amount s.

Details and Options

  • GeoBounds[g] returns ranges {{latmin,latmax},{lonmin,lonmax}} of latitude and longitude in degrees.
  • The geo region g may be given as a combination of GeoGraphics primitives such as GeoDisk and GeoPath, geographic Entity[] and EntityClass[] objects, or individual GeoPosition locations.
  • For extended geographic entities, the "Polygon" property is used. For point-like entities, the "Position" property is used.
  • The option GeoModel specifies the model of the Earth or celestial body being used.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (4)

Get the ranges of latitude and longitude of the bounding box enclosing the United States of America:

Ranges of the bounding box enclosing a geo disk of 5000 kilometers of radius:

Latitude and longitude ranges enclosing the countries of Africa:

Extend the latitude and longitude ranges of Africa by 200 miles:

Scope  (7)

Latitude and longitude ranges of a set of GeoGraphics primitives:

Ranges of the bounding box enclosing entities and entity classes:

Bounding box determined by individual geo locations:

Ranges of latitude and longitude of a country:

Extend the same angular distance in all directions:

Extend a geodetic distance instead:

A numeric padding is interpreted as a distance in meters:

Specify a padding distance relative to the geo range of the map:

Pad the latitude and longitude ranges differently:

Specify different paddings for each cardinal direction:

Locations of the Apollo landings on the Moon:

Extend the bounds by 1000 kilometers on the Moon's surface:

Options  (1)

GeoModel  (1)

To convert distances into angles, GeoBounds needs to know the size of the spheroid being used, by default the "ITRF00" datum of the Earth:

The same geo disk on the Moon spans a much larger angular scale:

The default value GeoModelAutomatic means that the geo model can also be inferred from other parts of the input:

The information provided must be consistent:

Properties & Relations  (6)

GeoBounds returns respective ranges of latitude and longitude:

GeoBoundingBox returns the SW and NE corners of the corresponding bounding box:

They define the same ranges:

The center of the bounding box of an extended entity approximates its "Position" property:

The bounding box is a rectangle in the cylindrical projections but not in other projection types:

GeoBounds on a long GeoPath object limits the extent of longitudes to 360 degrees:

Such a geodesic of one million kilometers of length winds around the Earth nearly 25 times:

This is the final location of the geo path:

Countries crossing the 180° meridian return a continuous range of longitudes:

The padding δ in GeoBounds[g,δ] corresponds to the GeoRangePadding->δ option of GeoGraphics:

That coincides with these padded ranges:

Wolfram Research (2014), GeoBounds, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoBounds.html (updated 2015).

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), GeoBounds, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoBounds.html (updated 2015).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "GeoBounds." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2015. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoBounds.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). GeoBounds. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoBounds.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_geobounds, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeoBounds}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoBounds.html}", note=[Accessed: 28-March-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_geobounds, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeoBounds}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoBounds.html}, note=[Accessed: 28-March-2024 ]}