[OpenLayers-Users] [Fwd: GeoJSON]

[Chris Holmes]

Note that GeoJSON through WFS is probably the route to go, just add it 
as an output format to the WFS.  WFS is a protocol, and GeoJSON isn't an 
alternative to WFS it's an alternative to GML, the default payload in a 
WFS, but not the only one.

FeatureServer does have an alternate, REST based protocol for getting 
and saving features, but it's not a standard spec (though I hope that 
someday we could get a nice REST feature service standard, that would 
obviously look a lot like featureserver)

Chris

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Has there been any thoughts or interest on supporting GeoJSON?
> This has significantly less overhead than WFS when working with web 
> clients like openLayers.
> 
> -Steve W.
> 
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> Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] GeoJSON
> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:33:10 -0600
> From: Tim Schaub <noreply at geocartic.com>
> To: users at openlayers.org
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> 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
> 
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Chris Holmes
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