[Geojson] OGR GeoJSON Driver

[Mateusz Loskot]

Sean Gillies wrote:
> 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,

Yes, I understand that.
In my own solutions, I heavily use the FeatureServer.
Anyway, the driver is can work with different mediums, network resoruce,
file, directly passed text content.

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net