[OpenLayers-Users] GeoJSON

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:33:10PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote:
> 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.

For the record, FeatureServer already has a GeoJSON Service, though it's
not the default JSON service. ?format=GeoJSON // layername/all.geojson
will both get you GeoJSON per-spec against current trunk. (or should.)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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