[gdal-dev] Failure to read some geojson files

[Scott]

Yeah, the raw works. It's easiest to grab it with vsi:

ogrinfo 
/vsicurl/https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/raw/9.1/docs/plot/data/coastline.geojson

On 4/28/23 15:09, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís via gdal-dev wrote:
> Thanks Andrea,
> 
> I thought that could be the case and downloaded the file with a right-click-save-as and what I got seemed to be a valid json file and clearly not an html file. And that one doesn't work either. It does when I select to download as "raw".
> 
> Joaquim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Andrea Giudiceandrea via gdal-dev
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2023 8:23 PM
> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Andrea Giudiceandrea <andreaerdna at libero.it>
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Failure to read some geojson files
> 
> Il 28/04/2023 19:08, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís via gdal-dev ha scritto:
>> This is with OSGeo4W GDAL but I get the same with my own build. But I
>> can read some other geojson files. Why?
>>
>> ogrinfo
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/blob/9.1/docs/plot/data/coastline.geojso
>> n
>> <https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/blob/9.1/docs/plot/data/coastline.geojs
>> on>
>>
>> ERROR 4: Failed to read TopoJSON data
> 
> Hi Joaquim,
> the URL
> https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/blob/9.1/docs/plot/data/coastline.geojson
> does not point to the actual coastline.geojson file. It points to a GitHub HTML page.
> 
> You need to use the URL
> https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/raw/9.1/docs/plot/data/coastline.geojson
> instead.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Andrea Giudiceandrea
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