What is GeoJSON?

From GeoJSON

GeoJSON is a collaborative project to to determine what, if any, geographic content can be encoded in JSON.

GeoJSON Encodings

• GeoJSON Web Map Context, derived from OGC Web Map Context
• GeoJSON Features, derived from Atom [1]

Other GeoJSON Encoding Candidates

• OGC Web Feature Service (WFS), with an emphasis on WFS Simple
• Proposal of a WFS encoding. It currently describes the GetFeature input/output, the DescribeFeatureType output.The Openoffice format:Media:jsonwfsspec.odt The Word format:Media:jsonwfsspec.doc.

Useful links

• GeoJSON - one of the first attempts to encode geographic data in JSON (with the name kindly donated to this effort)
• JIDL - "describes a simple scheme for implementing namespaced vocabularies in JSON"
• Geowanking mailing list thread "JSON for GEO"