searching cells within a geometry

[keewis]

In xdggs I'd like to be able to query a given array of cell ids by a geometry (most commonly: a bounding box, but also rectangles / circles).

For this to work truly efficiently, I'd need a specialized function that would take a list of existing cells and the geometry and would perform a cell-in-geometry check (with a parametrized containment mode). The result would be either the array of contained cell ids (a subset of the input cell ids), or a boolean array / an array of integer indices into the array.

I can't use geometry_to_cells for this because that returns all cells that would be contained within the geometry, and thus may have a considerable memory overhead if the known cells cover only small part of the geometry.

Would you be open to adding such a function? Or is there a better way to implement what I'm describing?

[keewis]

after looking through the code, it seems h3ronpy relies on the h3o for the geometry operations, so if this feature request makes sense/is in scope we might need to change that, as well?