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I'm trying to import a JSON file I got from a customer and convert it to a shapefile. The JSON file appears to have two Geometry types (Polygon and GeometryCollection). I can get the Polygons to import properly, however I cannot seem to get the GeometryCollection to import the Polygons they have in them. I am running QGIS 2.18.7 which I believe can handle multiple types.

I've stored the file I am trying to import here: Sample File

Is the file corrrupt or am I missing something?

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    OpenJUMP can import geojson with geometrycollections. You can then explode the collections and split the layer by geometry types for saving data into shapefiles.
    – user30184
    Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 6:19
  • I gave OpenJUMP a shot. However it is giving me errors trying to open the geometry collections as well.
    – Jason Steffen
    Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 15:53
  • Spatialite supports GeometryCollections if you want to keep the collection intact.
    – klewis
    Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 21:55

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The file is not corrupt. QGIS does not support GeometryCollection as a valid geometry type. You will have to parse it. Here is a related answer. Something like this will get you to the data:

with open(json_file, 'r') as data_file:
    data = json.load(data_file)
    for feature in data['features']:
        for geometry in feature['geometry']['geometries']:
            if geometry['type'] == "Polygon":
                polygon = geometry['coordinates']
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  • According to the QGIS import dialog, there are 3 polygons and 16 Geometry Collections. You are correct if you look at the first ones, the Geometry Collections have a polygon and a point. However if you go to the end of the file, you will find the 3 plain polygon items. QGIS will load those three, I just can't get it to properly load the other 16.
    – Jason Steffen
    Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 23:51
  • Ok, I edited my answer.
    – gisdude
    Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 2:11
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You are right with OpenJUMP, the GeoJSON driver seems to have a bug. You can use ogr2ogr for converting the data into JML format and do the rest with OpenJUMP.

ogr2ogr -f jml tommy.jml tommy.json

EDIT OpenJUMP can open GeoJSON with GeometryCollections directly since revision r5436. Download snapshot from https://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/OpenJUMP_snapshots/.

Open the JML (or GeoJSON if you have version r5436 or above) that contains polygons and GeometryCollections with OpenJUMP.

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Find the Extract Layers by Geometry Type tool.

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Select options for extracting geometries for shapefiles and exploding GeometryCollections.

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The tool will create two layers, one for points and another for polygons. Save them into shapefiles and you have done it.

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  • Perfect. Only thing I had to research was how to run the org2org command. Never used the "OSGeo4W Shell" Under the QGIS program list before, so had to find it. Thanks for your help.
    – Jason Steffen
    Commented Apr 28, 2017 at 17:06

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