Remove meaningless precision from your GeoJSON. If your coordinates go out to 7+ digits, you are probably misrepresenting your data. Most scenarios in which GeoJSON is useful (i.e. web-related applications) do not require survey-grade precision, and a higher value is placed on a compact file size. Trimming the precision of coordinates can greatly reduce file size, while removing the appearance of fake high precision.

This fork is rewritten in typescript.

npm install geojson-precision-ts

or

yarn add geojson-precision-ts

parse(*geojson*, *precision*, *extrasPrecision*, *options*);
omit(*geojson*);

options are bellows:

omit() is an alias for parse(t, 0, 0, { removeDuplicates: true }), a function that removes all decimal coordinates from GeoJSON.

Tolerance corresponds to how much resolution you can spare. Higher the tolerance, lower is your geometry's resolution. Tolerance is specified in degrees. The above table applies here too. The table gives a general idea on what tolerance to use for your task. For example, if you can allow an error of 1.11km (for example while plotting a big city map) set your tolerance to 0.01.

decimal
places   degrees          distance
-------  -------          --------
0        1                111  km
1        0.1              11.1 km
2        0.01             1.11 km
3        0.001            111  m
4        0.0001           11.1 m
5        0.00001          1.11 m
6        0.000001         11.1 cm
7        0.0000001        1.11 cm
8        0.00000001       1.11 mm

import { parse } from 'geojson-precision-ts';

const trimmed = parse(
  {
    type: 'Point',
    coordinates: [18.984375, 57.32652122521709],
  },
  3
);

trimmed will now look like this:

{
  "type": "Point",
  "coordinates": [18.984, 57.326]
}

This is useful when you want to pin a static image by specifying pixels.

import { parse } from 'geojson-precision-ts';

const omitted = omit({
  type: 'Point',
  coordinates: [18.984375, 57.32652122521709],
});

omiited will now look like this:

{
  "type": "Point",
  "coordinates": [18, 57]
}

Geojson-precision can also be used via the command line when installed globally (using -g).

A positive integer specifying coordinate precision

A positive integer specifying extra coordinate precision for things like the z value when the coordinate is [longitude, latitude, elevation].

An input GeoJSON file

An output GeoJSON file

geojson-precision -p 4 input.json output.json

Concepts, ideas, etc borrowed to various degrees from:

• wellknown
• LilJSON

MIT

Original Version by jczaplew's geojson-precision.

TypeScript version by Logue.

• Stop mutation of original object feature by frankrowe.
• Skip each geometry type feature by andrewharvey.
• Remove duplicate points feature by matthewrj.