On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 05:43 -0400, Eliot Christian wrote:
> There is a need to express geospatial "bounding box"
> searches using the Common Query Language (CQL) syntax.

> Also, "nwse" could be used for the "Coordinate String"
> Structure Attribute. (This has the great advantage of
> making obvious the order of lat/lon coordinates.)
>
> Using these recommendations and my example search,
> I guess the CQL expression for a "bounding box"
> geospatial search would be like this:
>
>   bounds within/partial/nwse "36.5 -106.7 25.8 -93.5"
>
> Is that correct?

You would need to define a context set to look after the nwse relation
modifier and the bounds index, but otherwise that looks fine :)

Eg:

gils.bounds within/partial/gils.nwse "..."


Rob