MongoEngine geo_within_box not working with polygon

Question

I would like to query Drawing.objects(box__geo_within_box=[(-180, -90), (180, 90)])

Drawing.box being a polygon of this type PolygonField() initialized in the following way:

{ "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [left, top], [right, top], [right, bottom], [left, bottom], [left, top] ] ] }

But it does not work (I get empty results). Maybe geo_within_box only works with points, not polygons?

How can I query all polygons inside a box?

Note: box__geo_intersects only returns polygons which intersect the edges, not the ones inside the given polygon.

Maybe checking the accepted answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42405589/query-polygons-geowithin-box-mongodb-doesnt-return-anything — LuisTavares, Sep 08 '19 at 19:24
When you say "it does not work", do you get an error or does it return empty results? — bagerard, Sep 08 '19 at 21:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '19 at 19:59

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The problem is that I query "big" polygons.

box__geo_intersects works fine with polygons smaller than a single hemisphere.

answered Sep 09 '19 at 19:59

arthur.sw

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