Bounding Box

What is a bounding box (bbox)? It's for defining a square spatial extent, e.g. with Overpass or OGR/GDAL tools. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bounding_Box

Online tools - our favourites! [1]):

1. Tile Calculator by Geofabrik https://tools.geofabrik.de/calc/#tab=1&places=5&bbox=5.538062,47.236312,15.371071,54.954937
2. bboxfinder http://bboxfinder.com/#5.538062,47.236312,15.371071,54.954937

Other online tools:

• boundingbox by Klokan Tech http://boundingbox.klokantech.com/
• Mapscaping Bounding Box Calculator: https://mapscaping.com/bounding-box-calculator/

Outdated or defunct online tools:

• bbox tool http://norbertrenner.de/osm/bbox.html
• uixapi http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/uixapi/xapi.html
• osm.duschmarke.de http://osm.duschmarke.de/bbox.html
• MapDevelopers Geocode Bounding Box Tool: https://www.mapdevelopers.com/geocode_bounding_box.php
• http://lxbarth.com/bbox/#8.6462402,47.193709,8.8275146,47.283218,8,46.758945324258896,7.640991210937499

Desktop Tools:

• QGIS

Other Tools:

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BBox Examples:

• Switzerland:
  • WGS84: 5.8358140744676303 45.659168946713827 10.979311848153316 47.869910020393519
  • The "official" extent for country-scale analysis (i.e. Switzerland) at SwissDataCube is https://github.com/GRIDgva/SwissDataCube/wiki/Switzerland-Extent : min latitude: 45.6755, max latitude: 47.9163, min longitude: 5.7349, max longitude: 10.6677.
  • EPSG:21781: 480000 62000 865000 302000