[Geocoding] Nominatim response bounding box

Marc Tobias mtm at opencagedata.com
Sat Mar 12 18:51:22 UTC 2016


That format was set years ago. I agree it should be different, it doesn't
seem to follow any particular standard. Changing it now would break
users' implementations (backward compatibility).

marc tobias

> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:29:40 -0500
> From: Brooks Isoldi <brooks.isoldi at traversed.com>
> Message-ID: <56E30E94.9060304 at traversed.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed the bounding box in responses from Nominatim are in the
> format of lat, lat, lon, lon.  I'm just wondering what the reasoning was
> for this and (more importantly) is there a way to get results in the
> format lat, lon, lat, lon?  I tried with geojson, which just returned
> the point and jsonv2, which returned the bounding box in the same format.
>
> Thanks!
>




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