From th.heuer+photon at gmail.com Wed Apr 15 03:52:28 2020 From: th.heuer+photon at gmail.com (Tim-Hinnerk Heuer) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:52:28 +1200 Subject: [Photon] Multiple BBOX Parameters to deal with countries across date line (-180/180 lon) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi There, Let me introduce: I am Tim, a German living in New Zealand since 2001. I've been working at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, New Zealand since 2010, specialising on Web GIS software development since. I would be happy and capable to implement this feature as I know Java and the middle wares well. Before I submit an issue on GitHub, I would like to discuss this with you. We are working on a web portal for the Pacific. We decided to use Photon and OSM data for our spatial search capability. However, we found a problem with Fiji, which has both longitudes greater than 160 and smaller than -170. OpenLayers does not support this properly and cannot handle extents like this, so we had to hack it and accept longitudes >180 degrees for the map to work properly. That is a separate issue but related. So, I hacked it by submitting 2 queries to Photon: One from 170 to 180 and then next from -180 to -170 (ish) and then merge the results in the client. Obviously this is not ideal and might mess up the ranking in some way, especially when there are less than n results in one response. So, I propose to add support for multiple bbox parameters. I couldn't seem to find this working already Does that make sense or am I missing something? Kind regards, Tim-Hinnerk Heuer Twitter: @geekdenz Blog: http://www.thheuer.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: