How do Bounds work in OpenLayers 3?

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colllin picture colllin · Mar 5, 2014 · Viewed 25.2k times · Source

Does the concept of OpenLayers.Bounds from OpenLayers 2.x still exist in OpenLayers 3? How has it changed, and what is its new name?

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Christophe Roussy picture Christophe Roussy · Mar 11, 2014

UPDATE: OL4: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/apidoc/ol.html#.Extent

It seems that the new word for 'bounds' or 'bounding box' (BBOX) is 'extent'. See:

One way to find out things at the moment is to run searches in the OL3 repo, for example: https://github.com/openlayers/ol3/search?p=3&q=BBOX&type=Code

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