nearby objects within a polygon about tile38 HOT 8 OPEN

Hi @jafitzwater

you already noticed that this does not work right now out of the box. A NEARBY search is currently limited to either no boundary, or a search radius (circle). If you'd wish NEARBY to only consider your input polygon, somebody would have to extend the NEARBY command here.

If this is something you'd consider @tidwall I'd be happy to give it a shot?

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Yes, this is exactly what im thinking, would love to utilize this in some of the projects. I'm sure there has to be others that would utilize this too. Seems like a option that should be included 100%

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@iwpnd What do you think the syntax would look like?

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hmm 🤔

NEARBY fleet POINT 33.462 -112.268 OBJECT {}

But that looks confusing, given the syntax of the other searches. It would also be hell for existing clients.

edit:
NEARBY fleet POINT 33.462 -112.268 FROM OBJECT {}
NEARBY fleet POINT 33.462 -112.268 FROM CIRCLE 33.462 -112.268 1000

more concise, but would also annoy existing clients

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What are the thoughts on this? thanks for considering it!

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Perhaps we just add a new option to the NEARBY that works similar to the LIMIT option, but for a geometry.
Similar to the FROM that @iwpnd suggested but maybe more client friendly.

NEARBY fleet LIMIT_WITHIN geom  POINT 33.464 -112.268
NEARBY fleet LWITHIN geom  POINT 33.464 -112.268

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Happy new year! Just checking on any additional thoughts on this if its something that can happen still?

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NEARBY fleet LIMIT_WITHIN geom POINT 33.464 -112.268 NEARBY fleet LWITHIN geom POINT 33.464 -112.268 These options seem like they would work and as you stated seem very client friendly, any thoughts on the integration of this option?

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