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Clarify spatial:bbox semantics when crossing the antimeridian #36

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@kylebarron

The text for spatial:bbox currently says only

[xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax]

Is there ever a case of a geographic array spanning the antimeridian?

In that case, we could either have wrap-around values, which could span outside of [-180, 180].

Or we could do like GeoJSON and have

[west_lon, south_lat, east_lon, north_lat]

when coordinates are geographic. In that case the west_lon could be a larger number than east_lon, i.e.

[177.0, -20.0, -178.0, -16.0]

But in the case of GeoJSON and STAC, those are explicitly bboxes which are always in WGS84. So in our case it might be simpler to have wrap around values.

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