Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-geojson-text-seq

draft-ietf-geojson-text-seq







GeoJSON                                                       S. Gillies
Internet-Draft                                                    Mapbox
Intended status: Informational                            April 07, 2016
Expires: October 9, 2016


                         GeoJSON Text Sequences
                     draft-ietf-geojson-text-seq-00

Abstract

   A proposed standard for geographic data that can be parsed and
   produced incrementally

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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.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Appendix A.  Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

1.  Introduction

   Large or never-ending sequences of records pose a problem for JSON
   that is well explained in the motivation for JSON Text Sequences
   [RFC7464].  GeoJSON [GeoJSON] faces the same kind of problem:
   geographic datasets often run to the tens of thousands or millions of
   records.  The problem is amplified by the possibility of large arrays
   of coordinates for each of the records.

   This document describes a solution to this problem based on JSON Text
   Sequences.  A GeoJSON Text Sequence is a document containing not,
   e.g., a single GeoJSON Feature Collection, but multiple GeoJSON
   Feature texts that can be parsed and produced incrementally.

   The advantage of using ASCII character RS "0x1e" to denote a record
   is that sequence producers and parsers need not enforce a canonical
   form for record GeoJSON.  Any valid GeoJSON, pretty-printed or
   compact, can be used in a GeoJSON text sequence.  Additionally,
   GeoJSON text sequences inherit from [RFC7464] rules for consistent
   processing of sequences with potentially corrupted records.

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, following [RFC7464]: a GeoJSON text sequence is any
   number of GeoJSON texts, each encoded in UTF-8 [RFC3629], each
   preceded by one ASCII RS character, and each followed by a line feed
   (LF).





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   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 [GeoJSON].

   Heterogeneous sequences containing a mix of GeoJSON Geometry,
   Feature, and Feature Collection objects are permitted.  How producers
   and parsers of GeoJSON text sequences should communicate about which
   GeoJSON types might appear in a sequence is not specified in this
   document.

3.  Security Considerations

   GeoJSON text sequences have no security considerations beyond those
   of JSON text sequences and the GeoJSON format.

4.  Interoperability Considerations

   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 feature sequences is application/geo
   +json-seq.

   Type name:  application

   Subtype name:  geo+json-seq

   Required parameters:  n/a

   Optional parameters:  n/a

   Encoding considerations:  binary

   Security considerations:  See section 5 above

   Interoperability considerations:  See section 6 above




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   Published specification:  [[This document]]

   Applications that use this media type:  various

   Additional information:

      Magic number(s):  n/a

      File extension(s):  n/a

      Macintosh file type code:  n/a

      Object Identifiers:  n/a

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

   Intended usage:  COMMON

   Restrictions on usage:  none

6.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [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., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
              Interchange Format", RFC 7159, March 2014.

   [RFC7464]  Williams, N., "JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Text
              Sequences", RFC 7464, DOI 10.17487/RFC7464, February 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7464>.

Appendix A.  Contributors

   TODO.

Author's Address

   S. Gillies
   Mapbox

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



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