[postgis-users] GeoJson export function

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Wed Apr 23 13:09:02 PDT 2008


Olivier,

I'll try this out on my ferry trip home today and apply it when I get
in if all is looking good. Thanks, that's one item off of my todo
list! :)

P

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Courtin Olivier
<olivier.courtin at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  GeoJson is a format we use widely between server and Web GIS applications,
>  cf <http://wiki.geojson.org/GeoJSON_draft_version_6>
>
>  So it sounds like a good idea to have GeoJson native support
>  in PostGIS,
>
>  Attached to this post is a patch against current PostGIS SVN, with:
>   - ST_asGeoJson implementation
>   - units tests
>   - DocBook documentation entry
>
>  To play with it, after installation, generate a GeoJson element:
>
>  SELECT ST_AsGeoJson(the_geom) FROM your_table LIMIT 1;
>
>  and copy/paste the result in OpenLayers:
>  cf <http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-formats.html>
>
>  Any reaction welcome,
>
>  HTH,
>  --
>  Olivier
>
>
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