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Editing a GeoJSON

Whats is GeoJSON?

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GeoJSON is a JSON based format designed to represent the geographical features with their non-spatial attributes. This format defines different JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) objects and their joining fashion. JSON format represents a collective information about the Geographical features, their spatial extents, and properties. An object of this file may indicate a geometry (Point, LineString, Polygon), a feature or collection of features. The features reflect addresses and places as point’s streets, main roads and borders as line strings and countries, provinces, and land regions as polygons.

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Use case: Edit and validate a GeoJSON

We want to build a web editor for GeoJSON, it is useful for many companies in order to build reliable mapping.

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Advantages

The key advantages of this tools

  • Ability to validate if a GeoJSON is matching the right criterias
  • Create a unified GeoJSON of all the built polygons
  • Ability to add layers off data
  • Export and Share in many formats

Limits

The key limits are

  • Doesn’t have a construct for styling features or specifying popup content
  • Modifying Large size GeoJSON
  • Zoom level latency

Bonus Heat Maps (Coming soon )

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