

Fortunately, JavaScript can convert JSON to binary. But JavaScript only understands binary objects. Webmaps browsers understand JavaScript so by default GeoJSON is a common web format. GeoJSON has a straightforward syntax that you can modify in any text editor. GeoJSON store objects within curly braces and in general have less markup overhead (compared to GML). This includes vector points, lines and polygons as well as tabular information. GeoJSON stores coordinate as text in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) form. The GeoJSON format is mostly for web-based mapping. Geographic JavaScript Object Notation (GeoJSON) PRJ is the projection system metadata.XML is the associated metadata.SBN is the spatial index for optimizing queries.SBX optimizes loading times.You can optionally include these files but are not completely necessary.

It’s so ubiquitous that it’s become the industry standard.īut you’ll need a complete set of three files that are mandatory to make up a shapefile. All commercial and open source accept shapefile as a GIS format. The shapefile is BY FAR the most common geospatial file type you’ll encounter.
