I did some simple Cartesian point tests:
rtree.qbegin(bgi::nearest(Point(4, 4), 2))
and they were sorted in Boost 1.61.
Now I need documentation or a source citation to confirm this.
If not, I just sort the query result after that.
c ++ boost boost-geometry
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