[jira] (LUCENE-7669) Rectangle.fromPolygon could compute smaller bounding boxes

[Adrien Grand (JIRA)]

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Adrien Grand created an issue   Lucene - Core / LUCENE-7669 Rectangle.fromPolygon could compute smaller bounding boxes Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Created: 30/Jan/17 18:22 Priority: Minor Reporter: Adrien Grand Currently it computes the smallest bounding box that does not cross the dateline. However allowing to cross the dateline could allow to create smaller bounding boxes. For instance, because of that, the bounding box of the Russia polygon has a width of 360 longitude degrees. By allowing rectangles that cross the dateline, we could get a polygon whose width is only 171 longitude degrees. This is useful combined with LUCENE-7661 since it means the grid would have higher resolution. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d)