It seems that GeoJSON is all the rage these days. Last month, Ian Bentley shared a bit about the new geospatial features in MongoDB 2.4. Derick Rethans, one of my PHP driver teammates and a renowned OpenStreetMap aficionado, recently blogged about importing OSM data into MongoDB as GeoJSON objects. A few days later, GitHub added support for rendering .geojson files in repositories, using a combination of Leaflet.js, MapBox, and OpenStreetMap data. Coincidentally, I visited a local CloudCamp meetup last week to present on geospatial data, and for the past two weeks I’ve been working on adding support for MongoDB 2.4’s geospatial query operators to Doctrine MongoDB.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
