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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"> <title>GeoJSON</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,800" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <!-- syntax highlighting CSS --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/syntax.css"> <!-- Custom CSS --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css"> </head> <body> <section class="content"> <article class="splash"> <h1 id="geojson"><span class="fkin">G</span>eo<span class="fkin">J</span>SON</h1> <p>GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures.</p> <figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-json" data-lang="json"><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"type"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"Feature"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"geometry"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"type"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"Point"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"coordinates"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">125.6</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">10.1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">},</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"properties"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"name"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"Dinagat Islands"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span></code></pre></figure> <p>GeoJSON supports the following geometry types: <code class="highlighter-rouge">Point</code>, <code class="highlighter-rouge">LineString</code>, <code class="highlighter-rouge">Polygon</code>, <code class="highlighter-rouge">MultiPoint</code>, <code class="highlighter-rouge">MultiLineString</code>, and <code class="highlighter-rouge">MultiPolygon</code>. Geometric objects with additional properties are <code class="highlighter-rouge">Feature</code> objects. Sets of features are contained by <code class="highlighter-rouge">FeatureCollection</code> objects.</p> <h2 id="the-geojson-specification-rfc-7946"><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946">The GeoJSON Specification (RFC 7946)</a></h2> <p>In 2015, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), in conjunction with the original specification authors, formed a <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/geojson/charter/">GeoJSON WG</a> to standardize GeoJSON. <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946">RFC 7946</a> was published in August 2016 and is the new standard specification of the GeoJSON format, replacing the 2008 GeoJSON specification.</p> </article> </section> </body> </html>