[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #481: Merge geospatial branch

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#481: Merge geospatial branch
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 Reporter:  richard      |       Owner:  richard  
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned 
 Priority:  highest      |   Milestone:  1.3.0    
Component:  Library API  |     Version:  SVN trunk
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:           
Blockedby:               |    Platform:  All      
 Blocking:               |  
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Comment(by richard):

 geocode format should probably have the discontinuity in longitude values
 at -180 instead of 0, since the world is less populated there.  We should
 also implement a bounding box checker (possibly that works only at the
 degree level), or at least a checker for longitude ranges, so that all
 users don't need to write their own code to cope with the discontinuity in
 encoded ranges.  Not sure of the appropriate API for a bbox checker, since
 we want to avoid effectively decoding the coordinate twice.  It seems that
 decoding could perhaps be done which doing a bbox check, so I think a good
 API might be a function takes a bbox, and which either returns a decoded
 coordinate, or a value of false to indicate that the coordinate is outside
 the box.

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