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I've got a shapefile (.shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj) that I'm trying to save as a GeoJSON using QGIS 2.14. When I load the .shp into QGIS, everything seems to work fine, the Shapefile renders properly.

QGIS Shapefile

However, when I try to do a Save As and select GeoJSON, I get null values for all my GeoJSON coordinate values.

{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"crs": { "type": "name", "properties": { "name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84" } },

"features": [
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "Section": null, "Block": "Last Name, First Name" }, "geometry": { "type": "MultiPolygon", "coordinates": null } },
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "Section": null, "Block": "Last Name, First Name" }, "geometry": { "type": "MultiPolygon", "coordinates": null } },
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "Section": null, "Block": "Last Name, First Name" }, "geometry": { "type": "MultiPolygon", "coordinates": null } },
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "Section": null, "Block": "Last Name, First Name" }, "geometry": { "type": "MultiPolygon", "coordinates": null } },
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "Section": null, "Block": "Last Name, First Name" }, "geometry": { "type": "MultiPolygon", "coordinates": null } },
etc, etc..............

Is there something special I need to do to make sure my coordinates show up when I'm saving my data?

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  • Does the original data have a valid coordinate system defined in the prj file?
    – Paulo Raposo
    Commented Jun 4, 2016 at 23:20
  • It does. This is the .prj file: GEOGCS["WGS 84",DATUM["WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]]
    – BDD
    Commented Jun 4, 2016 at 23:33
  • Strange. This isn't quite an answer (doesn't solve it in QGIS), but you could use the ogr2ogr command line tool (included in QGIS, see gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html) to convert from shapefile to GeoJSON, hopefully without this issue.
    – Paulo Raposo
    Commented Jun 5, 2016 at 0:39
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    Here is a snippet of the ogrinfo -al. There are coordinates, but there is a nan value that I think is the z value. Would that affect it?
    – BDD
    Commented Jun 5, 2016 at 14:52
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    Maybe, try forcing 2D with -dim 2 in ogr2ogr. Example: ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -dim 2 output_2D.shp input_3D.shp like suggested here
    – thibautg
    Commented Jun 5, 2016 at 16:22

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If you don't want to use ogr2ogr @ machine, could also use web client for this transformation .shp to GeoJSON- https://ogre.adc4gis.com/

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