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I want to import GeoJSON avaliable in the following dump into PostGIS but I am not able to import it. I already imported geousa data available in this public dump into MongoDB smoothly. Let me know is there a way to import this data directly or through MongoDB?

As this data is huge please check following data:

{"geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [19.056792, 47.490894]}, "type": "Feature",
"id": "SG_1iYphlxn9BSHyGrpv1aXKc_47.490894_19.056792@1308163237",
"properties": {"website": "http://mito.hu", "city": "Budapest",
"name": "Mito Europe", "tags": ["online", "communication", "design",
"branding", "development", "mito"], "country": "HU", "classifiers":
[{"category": "Professional", "type": "Services", "subcategory": "Advertising"}], "href": 
"http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/features/[email protected]",
"address": "N\u00e1dor u. 23.", "owner": "simplegeo", "postcode": "1051"}}

http://s3.amazonaws.com/simplegeo-public/places_dump_20110628.zip

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    You should warn that your dataset is 2.2 GB. For making it more attractive to help you, could you prepare test data with just couple of features? That is well enough for testing.
    – user30184
    Dec 1, 2015 at 6:45
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    added data format for reference.
    – work_in_progress
    Dec 1, 2015 at 7:03
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    How have you tried to import the data, and what is the error message?
    – til_b
    Dec 1, 2015 at 7:46
  • GDAL reads that one feature fine. You can test it yourself by saving it on the disk and running ogrinfo -al sample.json. You should really tell what you did and how did it fail.
    – user30184
    Dec 1, 2015 at 12:22
  • I executed: ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=my_database user=postgres" "source.geojson" but I am getting error as: FAILURE Unable to open datasource `source.geojson' with the following drivers. (showing list of drivers)
    – work_in_progress
    Dec 1, 2015 at 18:24

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You can use PostGIS's ST_GeomFromGeoJSON to bring in just the geometry part of the GeoJSON.

Better yet, you can use ogr2ogr to import the entire JSON document:

ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=my_database user=postgres" "source_data.json" -nln destination_table -append

(I haven't tested this with your data, add a comment if you have issues.)

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    I am getting error as : FAILURE Unable to open datasource `source.geojson' with the following drivers. (showing list of drivers).
    – work_in_progress
    Dec 1, 2015 at 18:22
  • That has to be the full path to your geojson
    – alphabetasoup
    Dec 1, 2015 at 18:49
  • I added full path as well, still I am getting the same error.
    – work_in_progress
    Dec 1, 2015 at 18:50
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    gdal-bin is already installed in my system (ubuntu).
    – work_in_progress
    Dec 1, 2015 at 19:21
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    I'm not going to download 2GB to look, but are your features a feature collection?
    – alphabetasoup
    Dec 1, 2015 at 21:06
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./ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=theDatabaseName user=postgres" "/Users/dev/Downloads/theGeometry.json" -where "name not like 'Whatever%'" -nln theFeatureName -overwrite

ogr2ogr displays a list of drivers when the file is not found. in that case just pass in the full path to the json file

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