json-to-geo

Convert JSON objects into GeoJSON features.

Example

➜ cat test/fixtures/foursquare-venues.json |
	json-to-geo --path 'response.venues.*'
		--lng 'location.lng' --lat 'location.lat' |
	nd-geojson | geojsonio

Opens geojson.io with pins for every venue returned by Foursquare Venues API. Note: nd-geojson wraps line-delimited GeoJSON features in a FeatureCollection.

➜ cat test/fixtures/foursquare-venues.json |
	json-to-geo --path 'response.venues.*'
		--lng 'location.lng' --lat 'location.lat' |
	tippecanoe -o venues

Build vector tiles with tippecanoe.

Install

npm install -g json-to-geo

How it works

Input:

{
	"meta": {
		"code": 200,
		"requestId": "57c63303498e78d449981c2c"
	},
	"response": {
		"venues": [{
			"id": "430d0a00f964a5203e271fe3",
			"name": "Brooklyn Bridge Park",
			"location": {
				"address": "Main St",
				"crossStreet": "Plymouth St",
				"lat": 40.70303245363086,
				"lng": -73.99389265510275
			}
		}, {
			"id": "51eabef6498e10cf3aea7942",
			"name": "Brooklyn Bridge Park - Pier 2",
			"contact": {},
			"location": {
				"address": "Furman St",
				"crossStreet": "Brooklyn Bridge Park Greenway",
				"lat": 40.69957016220183,
				"lng": -73.99793274204788
			}
		}]
	}
}

Output:

[{
	"type": "Feature",
	"geometry": {
		"type": "Point",
		"coordinates": [-73.99389265510277, 40.703032453630854]
	},
	"properties": {
		"id": "430d0a00f964a5203e271fe3",
		"name": "Brooklyn Bridge Park",
		"location": {
			"address": "Main St",
			"crossStreet": "Plymouth St",
			"lat": 40.703032453630854,
			"lng": -73.99389265510277
		}
	}
}, {
	"type": "Feature",
	"geometry": {
		"type": "Point",
		"coordinates": [-73.9979327420479, 40.69957016220184]
	},
	"properties": {
		"id": "51eabef6498e10cf3aea7942",
		"name": "Brooklyn Bridge Park - Pier 2",
		"location": {
			"address": "Furman St",
			"crossStreet": "Brooklyn Bridge Park Greenway",
			"lat": 40.69957016220184,
			"lng": -73.9979327420479
		}
	}
}]

In the box:

• An accessor function: You can specify an accessor function to extract coordinates from custom locations, or leave this empty and let the module look for common property names.
• Path to feature objects: If the array of objects is in a deep property, you can specify a path string, e.g. response.rows.*. See JSONStream for more info.
• Streaming interface: For fast command-line pipelines.
• Support for new-line delimited JSON: Set the flag --ndj to parse a stream of objects delimited by \n characters.

Usage:

See example.js or run json-to-geo -h.

From Javascript:

var jg = require('json-to-geo');
var rs = fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/test/fixtures/foursquare-venues.json');
jg.transform({
  readable: rs,
  path: 'response.venues.*',
  getCoordinates: jg.buildAccessor('location.lng', 'location.lat')
}).pipe(process.stdout);

From the command-line

% cat file.json | json-to-geo