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Export Spatial Data (geoJSON)

Export your Giraffe project in its native GeoJSON

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over a month ago

GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures. GeoJSON is an open standard geospatial data interchange format that represents simple geographic features and their nonspatial attributes. It uses a geographic coordinate reference system, World Geodetic System 1984, and units of decimal degrees.

There are two options:

  • Basic

  • Projected

A regular GeoJSON uses unprojected coordinates (geographic coordinate system), like latitude and longitude, to represent data on a spherical model of the Earth, while a projected GeoJSON contains coordinates that have been transformed (projected) from that sphere onto a flat, 2D surface using a mathematical map projection. Therefore, a regular GeoJSON is a spherical dataset, while a projected GeoJSON is a planar dataset ready for display on a map.

Access the export menu via the main menu (☰) → Export

  • Click (☰) → `Export` → `GeoJSON (GIS format)`

  • Click (☰) → `Export` → `Projected GeoJSON (in meters)`

A .json file will be downloaded to your computer. This file can be opened with any GeoJSON viewer or imported into another program that consumes that format.

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