gpkg_bbox: Get Bounding Box of a GeoPackage Layer

In gpkg: Utilities for the Open Geospatial Consortium 'GeoPackage' Format

Get Bounding Box of a GeoPackage Layer

Description

This function applies an OGR SQL query to obtain bounding coordinates of a table containing a geometry column. https://gdal.org/en/stable/user/sql_sqlite_dialect.html and https://gdal.org/en/stable/user/ogr_sql_dialect.html

Usage

gpkg_bbox(x, table_name, geom_column = "geom")

Arguments

x	A geopackage object
table_name	character. One or more table names.
geom_column	character. Geometry column name, default "geom"

Value

a data.frame containing columns "xmin", "ymin", "xmax", "ymax"

Examples

tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".gpkg")

r <- terra::rast(system.file("extdata", "dem.tif", package = "gpkg"))
v <- terra::as.polygons(r, ext = TRUE)
g <- geopackage(list(bbox = v))

gpkg_bbox(g, 'bbox')

gpkg documentation built on April 3, 2025, 8:55 p.m.