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RFC 8142

GeoJSON Text Sequences

Pages: 5
Proposed Standard

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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                        S. Gillies
Request for Comments: 8142                                        Mapbox
Category: Standards Track                                     April 2017
ISSN: 2070-1721


                         GeoJSON Text Sequences


Abstract


   This document describes the GeoJSON text sequence format and
   "application/geo+json-seq" media type.  This format is based on
   JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) text sequences and GeoJSON, and it
   makes arbitrarily large geographic datasets incrementally parseable
   without restricting the form of GeoJSON texts within a sequence.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8142.

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Table of Contents


   1. Introduction ....................................................2
      1.1. Requirements Language ......................................2
   2. GeoJSON Text Sequence Format ....................................2
   3. Security Considerations .........................................3
   4. Interoperability Considerations .................................3
   5. IANA Considerations .............................................3
   6. References ......................................................4
      6.1. Normative References .......................................4
      6.2. Informative References .....................................5
   Author's Address ...................................................5


1.  Introduction


   Arbitrarily large sequences of values pose a problem for JavaScript
   Object Notation (JSON) [RFC7159] that is well explained in the
   motivation for JSON text sequences [RFC7464].  The GeoJSON format
   [RFC7946] faces the same kind of problem.  Geographic datasets often
   run to the tens of thousands or millions of features.  The problem is
   often amplified by the presence of large arrays of coordinates for
   each of the features.

   This document describes a specialization of JSON text sequences.  A
   GeoJSON text sequence is a document of arbitrarily large size
   containing one or more GeoJSON objects (e.g., multiple GeoJSON texts
   that can be produced and parsed incrementally) and not just a single
   GeoJSON FeatureCollection, Feature, or Geometry.


1.1.  Requirements Language


   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   [RFC2119].


2.  GeoJSON Text Sequence Format


   Defined in prose similar to the description of the JSON text sequence
   in [RFC7464], a GeoJSON text sequence is any number of GeoJSON
   [RFC7946] texts, each encoded in UTF-8 [RFC3629], preceded by one
   ASCII [RFC20] record separator (RS) character, and followed by a line
   feed (LF).

   The GeoJSON text sequence format conforms to all the rules of
   [RFC7464] and adds the following constraint: each JSON text MUST
   contain a single GeoJSON object as defined in [RFC7946].
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   Heterogeneous sequences containing a mix of GeoJSON Geometry,
   Feature, and FeatureCollection objects are permitted.  How producers
   and parsers of GeoJSON text sequences communicate rules for allowed
   GeoJSON types in exchanged sequences is not specified in this
   document.


3.  Security Considerations


   GeoJSON text sequences have no security considerations beyond those
   of JSON text sequences [RFC7464] and the GeoJSON format [RFC7946].


4.  Interoperability Considerations


   The advantage of using ASCII character RS "0x1e" to denote a text is
   that sequence producers and parsers need not enforce a canonical form
   of GeoJSON.  Any valid GeoJSON, pretty-printed or compact, can be
   used in a GeoJSON text sequence.

   A variety of parsers designed for newline-delimited sequences of
   compact JSON text are deployed on the internet today.  While there is
   no canonical form for JSON texts, and pretty-printed and compact
   forms are equally valid, GeoJSON text sequences containing compact
   GeoJSON texts with no internal newlines are more interoperable with
   existing non-standardized parsers.

   In a distributed system where order and exactly-once delivery of
   messages are difficult to achieve, GeoJSON text sequences that do not
   rely on order of texts for extra semantics are more interoperable
   than those that do.


5.  IANA Considerations


   The MIME media type for GeoJSON text sequences is "application/
   geo+json-seq" (which uses the suffix established in [RFC8091]).  IANA
   has registered it in the "Media Types" registry
   <https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/>.

   Type name:  application

   Subtype name:  geo+json-seq

   Required parameters:  n/a

   Optional parameters:  n/a

   Encoding considerations:  binary

   Security considerations:  See Section 3 of RFC 8142
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   Interoperability considerations:  See Section 4 of RFC 8142

   Published specification:  RFC 8142

   Applications that use this media type: Geographic information
      systems (GIS)

   Additional information:

      Deprecated alias names for this type:  n/a

      Magic number(s):  n/a

      File extension(s):  n/a

      Macintosh file type code(s):  n/a

   Person to contact for further information: Sean Gillies
      (sean.gillies@gmail.com)

   Intended usage:  COMMON

   Restrictions on usage:  none

   Author:  Sean Gillies (sean.gillies@gmail.com)

   Change controller:  IETF


6.  References



6.1.  Normative References


   [RFC20]    Cerf, V., "ASCII format for network interchange", STD 80,
              RFC 20, DOI 10.17487/RFC0020, October 1969,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc20>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3629]  Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
              10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, DOI 10.17487/RFC3629, November
              2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3629>.

   [RFC7159]  Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
              Interchange Format", RFC 7159, DOI 10.17487/RFC7159, March
              2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7159>.
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   [RFC7464]  Williams, N., "JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Text
              Sequences", RFC 7464, DOI 10.17487/RFC7464, February 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7464>.

   [RFC7946]  Butler, H., Daly, M., Doyle, A., Gillies, S., Hagen, S.,
              and T. Schaub, "The GeoJSON Format", RFC 7946,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7946, August 2016,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7946>.


6.2.  Informative References


   [RFC8091]  Wilde, E., "A Media Type Structured Syntax Suffix for JSON
              Text Sequences", RFC 8091, DOI 10.17487/RFC8091, February
              2017, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8091>.


Author's Address


   Sean Gillies
   Mapbox

   Email: sean.gillies@gmail.com
   URI:   http://sgillies.net