[GeoJSON] AsJSON(geometry)

[Chris Holmes]

 >>> I think that's needlessly fluffy. Once you know the typology,
 >>> you can deal with anonymous arrays-of-arrays perfectly well.
 >>
 >> I agree and prefer:
 >>
 >>     {"multipoint": "[[x00 y00], [x11 y11], ..., [xNN yNN]]"}
 >>

 > This was my initial feeling too. But I've already got objects in hand
 > with point members on the Python side of my application, and I'd like 
 > an object or hash-oriented interface on the javascript side as well.
 > Why should I pack them into anonymous arrays just to unpack them 
again > at the other end?

I'm a bit more on the object approach as well.  I think it's a bit more 
human readable, without really all that much fluff in the big picture.

A very small multi-polygon ends up something like this:

[[[[10,10][10,20][20,20][20,15][10,10]]][[[10,10][10,20][20,20][20,15][10,10]][[11,11][11,12][12,12][11,11]]]] 
(two polygons, one just exterior, one with an exterior and an interior)

Also looking at OpenLayer's svn: 
http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/lib/OpenLayers/Geometry/

there is a geometry object model, and I think it'd make sense to just 
dump in to something like that.

I'm also +1 on rolling in geometryType and spatialCoordinates in to one.

Chris

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Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
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