Bounding Boxes
Bounding
Boxes
A Bounding Box is a geographically selected region used to
scan whether or not a selected area of land in Google Maps has an Onuma
schemes.
Searching
with Bounding Boxes
The WFS server enables these searches in three ways:
- Use one of the presets to set the Bounding Box values
- Upload a KML File from Google Earth to define the bounding
box either by
- Bounding Box -OR-
- Polygon
- Enter the values for two corners of the Bounding Box
manually (default set to "Whole World")
Uploading
a KML file into the WFS™
Take note of the two opposite placemarks created in Google
Earth. The red box is displayed only to give a visual idea of the area
the two placemarks are encompassing
-
- In Google Earth, use two Placemarks to mark opposite
corners of a box
- Placemarks need to be placed in a New Folder
- Saved that folder as a KML file
- Upload the KML
- Login to a usergroup
-
- In Google Earth, create a new Polygon
- Save out Polygon as a KML file
- Go to the Polygon Catalog
- Upload KML
- Login to a usergroup
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