RGeo::GeoJSON

RGeo::GeoJSON is an optional module for RGeo that provides GeoJSON encoding and decoding services.

Summary

RGeo is a key component for writing location-aware applications in the Ruby programming language. At its core is an implementation of the industry standard OGC Simple Features Specification, which provides data representations of geometric objects such as points, lines, and polygons, along with a set of geometric analysis operations. See the README for the “rgeo” gem for more information.

RGeo::GeoJSON is an optional RGeo add-on module that provides GeoJSON encoding and decoding services. GeoJSON is an emerging standard format used by many web services that need to communicate geospatial data. See www.geojson.com for more information.

Example:

require 'rgeo/geo_json'

str1 = '{"type":"Point","coordinates":[1,2]}'
geom = RGeo::GeoJSON.decode(str1, :json_parser => :json)
geom.as_text              # => "POINT(1.0 2.0)"

str2 = '{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[2.5,4.0]},"properties":{"color":"red"}}'
feature = RGeo::GeoJSON.decode(str2, :json_parser => :json)
feature['color']          # => 'red'
feature.geometry.as_text  # => "POINT(2.5 4.0)"

hash = RGeo::GeoJSON.encode(feature)
hash.to_json == str2      # => true

Installation

RGeo::GeoJSON has the following requirements:

Install RGeo::GeoJSON as a gem:

gem install rgeo
gem install rgeo-geojson

See the README for the “rgeo” gem, a required dependency, for further installation information.

To-do list

Development and support

Documentation is available at virtuoso.rubyforge.org/rgeo-geojson/README_rdoc.html

Source code is hosted on Github at github.com/dazuma/rgeo-geojson

Contributions are welcome. Fork the project on Github.

Report bugs on Github issues at github.org/dazuma/rgeo-geojson/issues

Contact the author at dazuma at gmail dot com.

Acknowledgments

RGeo is written by Daniel Azuma (www.daniel-azuma.com).

Development of RGeo is sponsored by GeoPage, Inc. (www.geopage.com).

License

Copyright 2010-2012 Daniel Azuma

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