To my mind the outputs of Union should be the largest extent area and Intersect 
is the smallest extent area. However any explanation in words alone will always 
have some ambiguity. It can't be avoided.

Union and Intersect via Wiki.GIS.com (I do find the intersect diagram less 
clear in this example than the next one):
[http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/images/thumb/2/28/Union.jpg/300px-Union.jpg]
[http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/images/thumb/4/4e/Demo_one.JPG/300px-Demo_one.JPG]

Union and Intersect in Wikipedia polygon theory:

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http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_operations_on_polygons

-Matt

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Subject: [EXT] Re: [gdal-dev] [Doc] gdal_calc.py extent option

Hi!
I needed the docs are correct but as this is the second time it confuses people 
maybe the wording should be revised?

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5969<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FOSGeo%2Fgdal%2Fpull%2F5969&data=05%7C01%7CMatt.Wilkie%40yukon.ca%7C8ec9f2c95b7c485d163508dab01d7941%7C98f515313973490abb70195aa264a2bc%7C0%7C0%7C638015937908111424%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qgiJYx5KjebSDNQrw4QJHhY%2FrntE1Pyxfn32x31xlus%3D&reserved=0>

Any ideas?

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 11:49 Nicolas Godet, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Indeed, this is right.
My bad..
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Objet : Re: [gdal-dev] [Doc] gdal_calc.py extent option

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, Nicolas Godet wrote:

> Dear Devs,
>
> In 
> documentation<https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_calc.html#cmdoption-extent<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgdal.org%2Fprograms%2Fgdal_calc.html%23cmdoption-extent&data=05%7C01%7CMatt.Wilkie%40yukon.ca%7C8ec9f2c95b7c485d163508dab01d7941%7C98f515313973490abb70195aa264a2bc%7C0%7C0%7C638015937908111424%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZQebVL1FblaUBIaZBYBsXHNJ0JfFm4nO8RzK2Gp4TZE%3D&reserved=0>>,
>  extent param description seems a bit odd to me.
>
>
> union - the extent (bounds) of the output will be the minimal
> rectangle that contains all the input extents.
>
> intersect - the extent (bounds) of the output will be the maximal
> rectangle that is contained in all the input extents.
>
> Shouldn't it be the other way around?

I think this *is* the right way round;
"all" can be misunderstood but I can not think of a clearer phrasing,
although "every one of" might help.

> As I intend to add this option to QGIS gdal_calc window (very useful
> option), I must be sure.

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