June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
873 pages
18h 9m
English
GeoJSON is a format for recording geographic data structures, which includes support of geometric definitions, such as points and polygons. For example, the location of an earthquake's epicenter (point) and the area affected (polygon). Part of the GeoJSON can look as follows:
{
"type":"Point",
"coordinates":[122.3818333,45.0686667,12.9]
}
,
"id":"uw61022191"The previous example is a small excerpt from the feed that reports all earthquakes in the past hour (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_hour.geojson). Take a moment to look at this feed and get a feel for the type of data this format contains.
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