GeoJson to Shapefile Conversion using Quantum GIS

GeoJSON (Geo Javascript Object Notation) is an extension to standard JSON format that widely used in API Development. One thing that differentiating between JSON and GeoJSON is, GeoJSON incorporates Geographic Coordinates in the data. This geographic information enables GeoJSON to be displayed into online webmap and served into webgis apps or mobile gis apps. 

In term of geospatial data, GeoJSON supports the following geometry types: PointLineStringPolygonMultiPointMultiLineString, and MultiPolygon. Geometric objects with additional properties are Feature objects. Sets of features are contained by FeatureCollection objects. 

Compared to other geospatial data format, GeoJSON is easy to maintain, simple, and plain just like XML, so it can be edited using certain parser or renderer dedicated to GeoJSON. Almost every Mapping API Framework like Mapbox, ArcGIS, Leaflet, Open Layers, or many others already support GeoJSON as one of the output format of their standardized mapping API. 

One strange things about this format is, there are not many Desktop GIS Software that can read this format in proper way. Quantum GIS and Global Mapper are two GIS software that already support this format in file-based data. The others are nothing, at least until this article are written. 

GeoJSON also have compatibility with other format like Shapefile, KML, Map info, CAD DXF/DWG or any other geospatial vector data format. This is because GeoJSON just like them. It is designed to model the geographic phenomena in point, line or polygon format, so conversion between format are possible and can be done without worrying lose some part or many part of the data. 

Now if you are curious to know more about GeoJSON and looking for a way to make a GeoJSON to be served in web, and currently you only have standard geospatial data format like shapefile, this video tutorial below may be suit you.


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