Point-in-bounding-box test API

Tests whether a coordinate falls inside a min/max lat-lon bounding box, correctly handling antimeridian-crossing boxes (where minLon > maxLon). Answers 'Is this point inside the bounding box?', 'Does my coordinate fall within a tile/extent that wraps the dateline?'.

Price$0.02per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/geo/point-in-bbox

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

geogisbboxpoint-in-bboxcontainsextentantimeridiangeofencespatial-query

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/geo/point-in-bbox

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "point": {
    "latitude": 51.5074,
    "longitude": -0.1278
  },
  "minLat": 51,
  "minLon": -0.5,
  "maxLat": 51.6,
  "maxLon": 0.2
}

Example response

{
  "point": {
    "latitude": 51.5074,
    "longitude": -0.1278
  },
  "bbox": {
    "minLat": 51,
    "minLon": -0.5,
    "maxLat": 51.6,
    "maxLon": 0.2
  },
  "inside": true,
  "latInRange": true,
  "lonInRange": true,
  "crossesAntimeridian": false,
  "interpretation": "Point is inside the bounding box."
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "point",
    "minLat",
    "minLon",
    "maxLat",
    "maxLon"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "point": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "latitude": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "longitude": {
          "type": "number"
        }
      },
      "examples": [
        {
          "latitude": 51.5074,
          "longitude": -0.1278
        }
      ]
    },
    "minLat": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        51
      ]
    },
    "minLon": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        -0.5
      ]
    },
    "maxLat": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        51.6
      ]
    },
    "maxLon": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        0.2
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}