[Geojson] FW: Features without geometry

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Tue Oct 2 11:51:51 PDT 2007


Martin Daly wrote:
>> Without a geometry, it's not GeoJSON. It's just another JSON
>> serialization. If you want to describe it in terms of GeoJSON, that's
>> fine, but for interchange of data, having a geometry means that you know
>> what can be done with it.
> 
> Unless...
> 
> We could add:
> 
> "geometry": {
>    "type": "Empty"
> }
> 
> OGC SF has provision for an empty geometry, e.g. the result of the boolean intersection between two non-intersecting LineString-s.
> 
> M
> 

"{}" is JSON's null, no?

Sean




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