extent(...)Returns a bounding box that encloses a set of geometries
Works with the following datatypes:
This function works with 2.1 and 3.0 endpoint(s). What does this mean? »
The extent(...) generates a rectangle that completely encompass a set of points or geometries, to get the rectangle that surrounds all of the crimes in Chicago in 2014:
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This can be very useful in generating heat maps or to describe the geographic area affected by a given dataset.