[OpenLayers-Users] GeoJSON

[Tim Schaub]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Isn't Tim or someone else working on GeoJSON to give an alternative to 
> WFS that does not have the XML parsing and overhead? I would think that 
> this might be a good alternative. If this is really happening, then we 
> might want to ping the mapserver list about support GeoJSON in the 5.0 
> release.
> 
> -Steve W

I think we're close to an agreed upon specification for GeoJSON.
http://wiki.geojson.org/GeoJSON_1.0_RC_1

You can take a look at WKT/GML/GeoJSON side by side (sort of) in this demo
http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/tschaub/xml/examples/vector-formats.html

FeatureServer will deal in GeoJSON.  I'm guessing GeoServer will as 
well.  It would be cool to get MapServer in on it.

Tim