[ckan-dev] Geojson format for recline.js visualization

Mon Dec 3 14:27:26 UTC 2012

Hi Pascal,

The geometries entered on the afterfibre test dataset are not encoded
in GeoJSON, but in WKT [1], that's why they are not rendered in the
map.
GeoJSON line strings would something like this: [2]

Hope this helps,

Adrià

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text
[2] http://www.geojson.org/geojson-spec.html#id3

On 3 December 2012 13:35,  <p.romain at cg33.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to provide geographical data to end-user in csv format as much
> as possible in complement to traditional geographical format.
> Although, I can use LAT/LONG columns for POI, it is necessary to use GeoJson
> format to describe LINES or POLYGONS.
> I had a look at http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/afterfibre and the related code
> and documentation but the information doesn't seems to display neither on
> http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/afterfibre/resource/66f5b980-06db-4ccd-a005-c18de4d68a4b
> nor on
> http://datahub.io/dataset/afterfibre/resource/f5d81da5-2e55-4302-8ed2-58401d2c139e
>
> Could you confirm me the required format for GeoJson information to be
> visualized in Recline.js ?
>
> In the above mentioned examples I have the following syntax
>
> Botswana,,Ghanzi - Namibia border,,SDH Source:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssong/5980312175/ Parts of this are highly
> speculative and probably wrong.,"LINESTRING (21.655687226945439
> -21.69807092918915 0,21.606544897735219 -21.698981514014829
> 0,21.55814494317222 -21.6948413352827 0,21.492934687173641
> -21.70172591790476 0,21.432925637207919 -21.707152166982251
> 0,21.4108749703861 -21.712328345347341 0,21.38092408696798
> -21.733997442781551 0,21.33297121701732 -21.737244186092511
> 0,21.270621127018181 -21.7492165472962 0,21.209296018166889
> -21.760407028676049 0,21.184802907584931 -21.7673550397231
> 0,21.124295475909431 -21.77495082482249 0,21.036772532878931
> -21.902107946653949 0,21.030922147053559 -21.92655934013332
> 0,21.029823515972719 -21.939804388740249 0,21.024525846876742
> -21.946069573594141 0,20.999362774212379 -21.947996797946232 0)"
>
> Is this the correct syntax ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pascal Romain
> @datalocale
>
>
>
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