[gdal-dev] Simple schema support for GeoJSON

Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
Fri Nov 21 07:43:18 PST 2014


Even Rouault 

> Le vendredi 21 novembre 2014 15:35:43, Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have no use for this feature myself but by reading various mailing
> > lists and forums I have learned that many people consider it is always
> > a good idea to read data for example from WFS services as GeoJSON instead
> of GML.
> 
> Because it consumes less bandwidth ?


I suppose rather that they generalize the good experiences about GeoJSON on browsers to mean that GML is poor for everything.  I found an interesting site http://jsperf.com/openlayers-format-reading-speed/2

I imagine that I can see a meaningful speed difference there indeed.

-Jukka-



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