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Kartograph Open Street Maps

Firstly, congratulations to Gregor Aisch for creating such a wonderful library, thank you! I am having a little trouble rendering an svg from some osm data. I downloaded the Sweden transportation ...
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preferred source format for OGR conversion to GeoJSON

I'm relatively new to OGR and GIS in general. Most of the sources I look at give a choice of ESRI shapefile and MapInfo formats. I'm using ogr2ogr to convert these to GeoJSON for import into ...
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Saving part of OSM shapefile in QGIS as GeoJSON strips 'name' field to 25 characters long

I want to copy part of OSM data in ESRI Shapefile (downloaded from http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/ukraine.html ) and save in in GeoJSON to style later in Tilemill. After saving, I see that ...
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BBox missing when converting TIGER to GeoJSON

I can't get the bounding boxes of polygons if TIGER/Line shape files when converting them to GeoJSON using FWTools. The other default information is present and there is no difference between the ...
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GeoJSON to Shape file conversion with geotools

Can someone please provide me an example of how to convert GeoJSON to Shape file using geotools?
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Natural Earth: How to get the position of all provinces that belong to a state

This question is about Natural earth 1:10 states and provinces.shp file. I'm using ogr2ogr and want to know the name of the id i need to pass . In purpose of pulling out the right states regions. ...
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Exporting 2 shp layers to geojson using quantum GIS

I will explain with an example: I have 2 shp files for Tanzania. Tanzania inland waters http://www.diva-gis.org/data/wat/TZA_wat.zip Tanzania administrative boundaries ...
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GeoJSON too bulky - what to do?

I am using leaflet.js to allow web users to select a region. Valid regions are US states, Canadian providences, and world countries (except for US and Canada). I constructed a shapefile myself using ...
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Regional statistics from a dataset (point inside a polygon aka region)

I am relatively new to GIS and I am trying to do some geographical analysis on same data I've collected. The dataset I have consists essentially in a file with the following format: ...
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How to create a GeoJSON that works with D3?

I'm simply trying to convert a .shp file to a geoJSON format using: ogr2ogr -f geoJSON output.json input.shp After executing the command nothing seems to be wrong. Here's an excerpt from the ...
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Working examples of Leaflet/Polymaps with GeoJSON tiles generated from Tilestache using Shapefiles?

I'm looking to create choropleths using GeoJSON tiles generated from ESRI Shapefiles by TileStache(or similar), in either Leaflet or Polymaps. So far reading and drawing GeoJSON from both Leaflet and ...
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ogr2ogr converting to shapefile - how to select feature types?

Shapefiles can only have one geometry type, but many other formats (kml, geojson) can have multiple types. When converting to shapefiles, is it possible to to tell ogr2ogr to create multiple ...
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How to convert SHP into GPX or JSON?

I would like to convert the tree inventory shape files of London (Canada) into a GPX file and if possible into a JSON file. You can download the archive from their Open Data website. It contains the ...
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How to load GeoJSON files directly onto QGIS? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Plugin or script to get QGIS to display geoJSON in a layer Is there a way to do this? Or is there a way i can put it onto PostGIS and then load it onto QGIS? I actually ...
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Using QGIS, how can I add a bounding box attribute?

I have a shapefile where I am exporting the features to GeoJSON objects with ogr2ogr based on a simple where clause. One thing that I would like to be included in the GeoJSON object is the 'bbox' ...
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How do dissolve polygons from shapefile using open source tools?

In my current project I'm visualizing data on a map representing some values for each administrative areas of a country. I'm given a shapefile of this country, which I'm converting to GeoJSON for use ...