Yes, sure, having all as strings is a good start.

 
-Jukka-

edgar soldin wrote:

> Jukka,

> could you live with all attributes being read as Strings for now? ..ede

On 27.06.2016 08:35, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Json datatypes http://www.tutorialspoint.com/json/json_data_types.htm do not 
>> map perfectly with OJ datatypes. Strings can be separated from numbers, 
>> though, but there is another problem in missing schema. Each feature can 
>> have different attributes.
>> 
>> I believe that GDAL is scanning the GeoJSON file twice for finding all the 
>> attributes which appear in the data and analyzing their datatypes. Rather 
>> often GeoJSON is converted from GIS data and then schema is fixed so that 
>> all features have same set of attributes and empty ones are marked as NULL. 
>> Still it is hard to know the type of attribute if it is NULL.
>> 
>> Code for reading GeoJSON with GeoTools is at 
>> https://github.com/geotools/geotools/tree/master/modules/unsupported/g
>> eojson
>> 
>> An easy start could be to read the first one feature and build schema 
>> with attribute types double, string, boolean. But what to do if there 
>> are null values? Read first hundred? Read until first not null? Or let 
>> user make a header line with schema into a separate file 
>> "basename.jsont" like with the GDAL CSV driver 
>> http://www.gdal.org/drv_csv.html
>> 
>> attr_1:string;attr_2:integer;attr_3:double
>> 
>> Sorry that I can't give simple answers, I thought it would be easier and 
>> handled by JTS already.
>> 
>> -Jukka-
>> 
>> edgar.sol...@web.de kirjoitti 2016-06-26 17:19:
>>> hey Jukka,
>>>
>>> attributes do not seem to carry a type in GeoJSON.. any idea how this 
>>> is supposed to be parsed?
>>>
>>> ..ede
>>>
>>> On 23.06.2016 16:20, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
>>>> Hi Ede,
>>>>
>>>> Please find attached. I included some small samples in both JML and 
>>>> GeoJSON. For the conversion I used ogr2ogr:
>>>>
>>>> ogr2ogr -f geojson output.json input.jml
>>>>
>>>> Test data is not perfect:
>>>>
>>>> - I just digitized some features and they may be outside the real 
>>>> area of the EPSG:4326 which is default in GeoJSON (-90,-180,90,180)
>>>> - GDAL warned that DateTime type is not natively supported
>>>>
>>>> For handling projections with ogr2ogr use source and target srs 
>>>> parameters as
>>>>
>>>> ogr2ogr -f geojson -s_srs epsg:3067 -t_srs epsg:4326 output.json 
>>>> input.jml
>>>>
>>>> -Jukka-
>>>>
>>>> edgar.sol...@web.de kirjoitti 2016-06-23 15:56:
>>>>> Jukka,
>>>>>
>>>>> do you have an example dataset to tiner with for me?
>>>>>
>>>>> ..ede

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