Has there been any thoughts or interest on supporting GeoJSON? This has significantly less overhead than WFS when working with web clients like openLayers.
-Steve W. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] GeoJSON Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:33:10 -0600 From: Tim Schaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Isn't Tim or someone else working on GeoJSON to give an alternative to > WFS that does not have the XML parsing and overhead? I would think that > this might be a good alternative. If this is really happening, then we > might want to ping the mapserver list about support GeoJSON in the 5.0 > release. > > -Steve W I think we're close to an agreed upon specification for GeoJSON. http://wiki.geojson.org/GeoJSON_1.0_RC_1 You can take a look at WKT/GML/GeoJSON side by side (sort of) in this demo http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/tschaub/xml/examples/vector-formats.html FeatureServer will deal in GeoJSON. I'm guessing GeoServer will as well. It would be cool to get MapServer in on it. Tim _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
