[Geojson] FW: Features without geometry
Christopher Schmidt
crschmidt at metacarta.com
Tue Oct 2 12:40:17 PDT 2007
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Sean Gillies wrote:
> 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?
'null' (no quotes) is JSON's null. {} is probably JSON's empty. I'm not
really against either type "Empty" or {} or null. type "Empty" seems to
be more in line with WKT.
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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