geojson-shave 0.1.1

A command-line tool for reducing the size of GeoJSON files.

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geojson-shave reduces the size of GeoJSON files by:

• Truncating latitude/longitude coordinates to the specified decimal places.
• Eliminating unnecessary whitespace.
• (Optionally) replacing the properties key's value with null/empty dictionary.

This tool assumes that your GeoJSON file confirms to the RFC 7946.

Installation

$ pip install geojson-shave

Usage

Simply pass the file path of your GeoJSON file and it will truncuate the coordinates to 5 decimal places, outputing to the current working directory:

$ geojson-shave roads.geoson

Alterntatively you can specify the number of decimal points you want the coordiantes truncuated to:

$ geojson-shave roads.geojson -d 3

You can also specify if you only want certain Geometry object types in the file to be processed:

$ geojson-shave roads.geojson -g LineString Polygon

Note that the -g option doesn't apply to objects nested within Geometry Collection.

And to reduce the file size even further you can nullify the property value of Feature objects:

$ geojson-shave roads.geojson -p

Output to a directory other than the current working directory:

$ geojson-shave roads.geojson -o ../data/output.geojson

TODO

• Add support for passing the URL of a hosted GeoJSON file to the tool.