[GeoJSON] RFC-001 vote

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:02:00AM -0400, Allan Doyle wrote:
> Note that there is a counterproposal in http://lists.geojson.org/ 
> pipermail/geojson-geojson.org/2007-April/000126.html

After working with GeoJSON long enough, I've realized that Tim is
absolutely right on the money with this:

"Again, I've heard the argument that you can cram much of your parser 
into one line if you keep the coordinates array identical for 5 of the 
geometries.  Personally, I think this argument is a bit weak - and makes 
the data structure overly funky."

I'm entirely in favor of:

 * Getting rid of 'holes' (polygons are a list of rings, first one is
   outer) 
 * Points being a tuple ([x,y])
 * Lines being a list of tuples [[x,y], [x2,y2]]
 * Polygons being a list of linear rings:
   [[[x,y], [x2,y2], [x3,y3], [x,y]],[[x4,y4], [x5,y5], [x6,y6], [x4,y4]]]

I know I made the counter argument to begin with. It was stupid of me. I
learned better as I wrote more code. 

So, I vote for doing whatever needs to be done to make Tim's suggestion [1] 
the way things are done. If someone tells me the right way to proceed,
I'll turn what he wrote into a proposal on the wiki. 

[1] http://lists.geojson.org/pipermail/geojson-geojson.org/2007-April/000126.html


Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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