[GeoJSON] Point as list of one point, or list of coords

Allan Doyle adoyle at eogeo.org
Wed Apr 11 06:13:52 PDT 2007


Good point. :)

On Apr 11, 2007, at 09:07, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> Two different representations are possible for point:
>
>  [x,y]
>
>  [[x,y]]
>
> The former possibly makes more sense, but the latter means that any
> geometry type can be transformed like so:
>
> coords = " ".join(map(lambda x: ",".join(map(str, x)),
>                      geometry['coordinates']))
>
> Note that this also supports 3/4 d geometries.
>
> I'm strongly in favor of the latter, speaking as an implementor.

This is all about implementors. It's got enough worse-is-better  
flavor to be a pretty convincing argument. Are there convincing  
arguments against it?

People who edit geojson manually in vim might mess up?

	Allan


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