[Geojson] OGR GeoJSON Driver

[Sean Gillies]

Eric Lemoine wrote:
> 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
> 

Eric,

A WFS must provide GML responses by default, but is free to offer other
formats as well. However, since the whole OGC SOA is held together by
XML and GML other formats are less useful for WFS.

Sean