[Geojson] FW: Features without geometry

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Sean Gillies wrote:
> Martin Daly wrote:
> >> Without a geometry, it's not GeoJSON. It's just another JSON
> >> serialization. If you want to describe it in terms of GeoJSON, that's
> >> fine, but for interchange of data, having a geometry means that you know
> >> what can be done with it.
> > 
> > Unless...
> > 
> > We could add:
> > 
> > "geometry": {
> >    "type": "Empty"
> > }
> > 
> > OGC SF has provision for an empty geometry, e.g. the result of the boolean intersection between two non-intersecting LineString-s.
> > 
> > M
> > 
> 
> "{}" is JSON's null, no?

'null' (no quotes) is JSON's null. {} is probably JSON's empty. I'm not
really against either type "Empty" or {} or null. type "Empty" seems to
be more in line with WKT.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta