[Geojson] Binary GeoJSON

[Reed Underwood]

Steve,

Thanks for the response.

I'm using the OGC WKB format for serializing geometries in several projects. The idea here was to have a serialization standard for features along the lines of GeoJSON but a bit more compact and designed for binary serialization. The key is maintaining the mapping to standard JSON types.

WKB doesn't store attribute data. GeoJSON does. It also stores feature collections, and so on, which is attractive.

Best,
Reed

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:46:27AM +0000, Carl Smyth wrote:
> Hi Reed,
> 
> I am not sure how anything binary could be JSON but it sounds like you are interested in something like the "well-known binary" formats defined by ISO 13249. Google "WKB OGC" for more info.
> 
> ...steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geojson-bounces at lists.geojson.org [mailto:geojson-bounces at lists.geojson.org] On Behalf Of Reed Underwood
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:38 PM
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> Subject: [Geojson] Binary GeoJSON
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm interested in developing a spec for a binary equivalent to GeoJSON. If there are efforts along these lines already in motion, please let me know. If you're interested in collaborating on something like this, please let me know.
> 
> I plan on building a model implementation in C and would like to move on this sooner rather than later.
> 
> Cheers,
> Reed Underwood
> Boston University
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