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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knut,

This procedure has already been described briefly in the GIS user
manual. Take a look there for a start, included below for your
convenience.


"1.1.2. Production of GeoJSON files with GDAL

GDAL is a multi-platform toolkit for the manipulation of geographical
data. It is freely available for a wide-range of platforms at
http://gdal.org

Production of GeoJSON files are straightforward with GDAL. Just
execute (on Windows)

ogr2ogr.exe -f "GeoJSON" dst_datasource_name src_datasource_name

or on Linux

ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON"dst_datasource_name src_datasource_name

Replace dst_datasource_name with the path to the destination
geographical data file (following the naming convention described
above) and src_datasource_name with the source geographical data file.
Take note that you may need to specify input and output coordinate
systems as described above. "

Also, FME will do this job very nicely.

Regards,
Jason


On 12/15/09, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Any reason you would not do this with GDAL (ogr2ogr) directly?
>
>
> Maybe lack of knowledge? Can you enlighten me?
>
> Knut
>
>
>>
>>
>> On 12/15/09, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I am working on scripts to import shapefiles to PostGIS, simplify them,
>> and
>> > export to GeoJSON using Geoserver:
>> >
>> > http://www.openhealthconsortium.org/wiki/doku.php?id=importing_to_ohm
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Knut Staring
>