[Geojson] OGR GeoJSON Driver

[Sean Gillies]

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My name is Mateusz Loskot and working mainly for projects like GDAL/OGR,
> MOSS4G, GEOS, FDO, PostGIS and lurking around bunch of other great
> initiatives. Recently, I got interested in GeoJSON format and services
> based on it, as a good candidate for being a lightweight replacement to
> OGC WFS, especially accessible from mobile clients.
> 
> Yesterday, I announced new OGR driver that implements GeoJSON in
> terms of OGR objects model. Here is the whole story:
> 
> http://mateusz.loskot.net/2007/11/06/ogr-geojson-driver/
> 
> The driver has been applied to the official GDAL repository:
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1968
> 
> And it will be included in next GDAL 1.5.0 release.
> 
> I'd like to send thanks to authors of GeoJSON Specification. Great job!
> 
> Cheers

Mateusz,

GeoJSON is just a wire format and only in combination with a REST
architecture service (like FeatureServer) can it replace WFS.

Sean