bounding box

A bounding box is a mechanism for describing a particular area of a map. It is typically expressed as an array of coordinate pairs, with the first coordinate pair referring to the southwestern corner of the box and the second referring to the northeastern corner of the box.

Any Mapbox library that creates maps or initiates geocoding requests has a class or object for using bounding boxes in your code:

• Mapbox.js and Leaflet - L.LatLngBounds
• Mapbox GL JS - LngLatBounds
• Turf.js - turf.bbox
• Mapbox Maps SDK for iOS - MGLCoordinateBounds
• Mapbox Maps SDK for Android - BoundingBox class
• Mapbox Java SDK – MapboxGeocoding.Builder.bbox() method
• MapboxGeocoder.swift – RectangularRegion class