geojson-precision

Remove meaningless precision from your GeoJSON. If your coordinates go out to 7+ digits, you are probably misrepresenting your data. Most scenarios in which GeoJSON is useful (i.e. web-related applications) do not require survey-grade precision, and a higher value is placed on a compact file size. Trimming the precision of coordinates can greatly reduce file size, while removing the appearance of fake high precision.

Install

```` npm install -g geojson-precision ````

API

.parse(geojson, precision)

```geojson`` is a valid GeoJSON object, and can be of type ``Point``, ``LineString``, ``Polygon``, ``MultiPoint``, ``MultiPolygon``, ``MultiLineString``, ``GeometryCollection``, ``Feature``, or ``FeatureCollection```. If you are unsure whether or not your GeoJSON object is valid, you can run it through a linter such as geojsonhint.
```precision`` is a positive integer. If your specified ``precision`` value is greater than the precision of the input geometry, the output precision will be the same as the input. For example, if your input coordinates are ``[10.0, 20.0]``, and you specify a ``precision`` of ``5```, the output will be the same as the input.

Example use:

````javascript const gp = require("geojson-precision");
let trimmed = gp.parse({

"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [
  18.984375,
  57.32652122521709
]
      }, 3);

````
```trimmed``` will now look like this:
````javascript {

"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [
   18.984,
   57.326
]

} ````
```.parse()``` can also be used directly, for example:
````javascript const gp = require("geojson-precision");
let trimmed = gp({ ... }, 3);
````

CLI

Geojson-precision can also be used via the command line when installed globally (using ```-g```).

Parameters

precision (-p)

A positive integer specifying coordinate precision

extras precision (-e)

A positive integer specifying extra coordinate precision for things like the z value when the coordinate is longitude, latitude, elevation.

input

An input GeoJSON file

output

An output GeoJSON file

Example use

```` geojson-precision -p 4 input.json output.json ````

Inspiration

Concepts, ideas, etc borrowed to various degrees from:
- wellknown - LilJSON

License

MIT