How can I create set of small bounding boxes given a large area?

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Published on 2010-03-15T17:26:40Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 17:29 UTC
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Given a large bounding box (say 1 km square), I want to divide this area into a set of smaller bounding boxes to form a grid pattern. I know there are some Earth geometry issues to contend with where. Can anyone help? I'm doing with with Ruby and I'm working with the excellent GeoKit library. Thank you!

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