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minimum bounding rectangle  

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  • The minimum bounding rectangle (MBR), alternatively, the minimum bounding box (MBB), is the single orthogonal rectangle that minimally encloses or bounds the geometry of a geographic feature or the collection of geometries in a geographic data set. It can be used to describe the extent of either vector or raster data. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Minimum Bounding Rectangle]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZL696LQQ-K

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