What is GeoJSON?
It is an open standard format designed for representing simple geographical features, along with their non-spatial attributes. It is based on JSON, the JavaScript Object Notation. The features include points, line strings, polygons, and multi-part collections of these types
GeoJSON is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Who uses GeoJSON?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use GeoJSON in their tech stacks, including My Franchise, all, and Services.
Developers
58 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GeoJSON.
GeoJSON Integrations
GeoJSON's Features
- GeoJSON supports the following geometry types: Point
- LineString
- Polygon
- MultiPoint
- MultiLineString
- MultiPolygon
GeoJSON Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to GeoJSON?
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
