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Turn a bbox string into an EWKT polygon
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polygon_from_bbox.rb
def polygon_from_bbox(str)
south_west_lat, south_west_lng, north_east_lat, north_east_lng = str.split(',')
"SRID=4326;POLYGON((" +
south_west_lat + " " + south_west_lng + "," +
north_east_lat + " " + south_west_lng + "," +
north_east_lat + " " + north_east_lng + "," +
south_west_lat + " " + north_east_lng + "," +
south_west_lat + " " + south_west_lng + "))"
end
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