[GeoJSON] Status of empty geometry

Tom MacWright tom at macwright.org
Tue Oct 1 05:51:19 PDT 2013


Hey Mateusz,

I always assumed that the provision for null geometries covered this:

> A feature object must have a member with the name "geometry". The value
of the geometry member is a geometry object as defined above or a JSON null
value.

http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html#feature-objects

- Tom


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The current GeoJSON 1.0 does not specify anything regarding empty
> geometries representation.
> Does it mean there is no notion of empty?
>
> There has been a thread [1] related to this topic but it didn't conclude
> with any decisions,  AFAIK.
>
> What's the status of empty geometry?
>
> [1]
> http://lists.geojson.org/pipermail/geojson-geojson.org/2011-June/000555.html
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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