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how to create bounding box with spatial tools

jackdaniels
8 - Asteroid

I have been given a list of lat and lon co-ordinates in "WGS-84" but cannot work out how to make bounding boxes / polygons.

 

can anyone help?wgs84.PNG

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TravisR
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Hi @jackdaniels

 

I recommend you look into the PolyBuild tool for turning your points into a polygon. 

 

https://help.alteryx.com/2018.3/PolyBuild.htm

 

To get the Bounding Rectangle of that polygon - you'll want to use the Spatial Info tool.

 

https://help.alteryx.com/2018.3/SpatialInfo.htm

 

 

jackdaniels
8 - Asteroid

Hi @TravisR

 

I am struggling to generate points as I have 2 pairs of lat and lon.per item.

TravisR
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

@jackdaniels Can you provide a small sample of the data you're working with?

jackdaniels
8 - Asteroid

@TravisR

 

Basically I have been given a set of IDs with 4 coords in pairs, like this.

 

A: (51.310290, 4.591236, 51.30188, 4.567900)

TravisR
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

@jackdaniels

 

Does my attached workflow accomplish roughly what you are looking for?

kat
12 - Quasar

Hi  @jackdaniels

 

does the attached help?

 

bounding rectangle.PNG

jackdaniels
8 - Asteroid

Thanks @TravisR. I will take a close look.

jackdaniels
8 - Asteroid

Hi @kat Thanks for the suggestion. I will take a look.

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