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Editing a GeoJSON

March 9, 2020

Whats is GeoJSON?

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.

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.

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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