[Geojson] OGR GeoJSON Driver

[Eric Lemoine]

On Nov 7, 2007 4:22 PM, Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> 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.

GeoJSON has also been used with the WFS protocol as a replacement for
GML. I'm not sure whether this is WFS-compliant or not though. Any
idea?

--
Eric