ST_MinBoundingBox

ST_MinBoundingBox takes a geometry column and returns a polygon column. The output column contains a polygon for each geometry in the input column. The polygon is the smallest rectangle of arbitrary alignment that encompasses the input geometry. You can optionally provide a boolean value that determines how the rectangle will be created. There are two options:

  • True: Creates a rectangle with the minimum possible area. This is the default.
  • False: Creates a rectangle with the minimum possible width.

For point geometries, this function will return a degenerate polygon at the location of the point.

To find the minimum bounding box that aligns to the x and y axis, use ST_Envelope.

FunctionSyntax
Pythonmin_bounding_box(geometry, by_area=True)
SQLST_MinBoundingBox(geometry, by_area)
ScalaminBoundingBox(geometry, byArea)

For more details, go to the GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric API reference for min_bounding_box.

Python and SQL Examples

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from geoanalytics_fabric.sql import functions as ST

data = [
    ("POINT (10 30)",),
    ("MULTIPOINT (0 0, 5 5, 0 5)", ),
    ("LINESTRING (15 15, 10 15, 12 2)", ),
    ("POLYGON ((20 30, 18 28, 22 35, 40 20))", )
]

df = spark.createDataFrame(data, ["wkt"])\
          .select(ST.geom_from_text("wkt").alias("geometry"))

df = df.withColumn("min_bounding_box", ST.min_bounding_box("geometry"))

ax = df.st.plot("geometry", facecolor="none", edgecolor="red")
df.st.plot("min_bounding_box", ax=ax, facecolor="none", edgecolor="blue")
Plotting example for ST_MinBoundingBox
Plotted result for ST_MinBoundingBox.

Scala Example

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import com.esri.geoanalytics.sql.{functions => ST}

case class GeometryRow(wkt: String)
val data = Seq(GeometryRow("POINT (10 30)"),
               GeometryRow("MULTIPOINT (0 0, 5 5, 0 5)"),
               GeometryRow("LINESTRING (15 15, 10 15, 12 2)"),
               GeometryRow("POLYGON ((20 30, 18 28, 22 35, 40 20))"))

val df = spark.createDataFrame(data)
              .select(ST.geomFromText($"wkt").alias("geometry"))
              .withColumn("min_bounding_box", ST.minBoundingBox($"geometry"))

df.select("min_bounding_box").show(truncate = false)
Result
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|min_bounding_box                                                                                                                                  |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|{"rings":[[[10,30],[10,30],[10,30],[10,30]]]}                                                                                                     |
|{"rings":[[[3.061616997868383e-16,5],[5,5],[5,0],[0,0],[3.061616997868383e-16,5]]]}                                                               |
|{"rings":[[[11.999999999999998,2],[7.2528089887640395,3.0955056179775298],[10.252808988764045,16.09550561797753],[15,15],[11.999999999999998,2]]]}|
|{"rings":[[[22,35],[42.030769230769224,23.553846153846163],[38.03076923076923,16.553846153846152],[18,28],[22,35]]]}                              |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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1.0.0-beta

Python, SQL, and Scala functions introduced

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