[New] GeoCSV / Geo CSV

[rufuspollock]

What: a specification around geodata in CSV.

Ideas: this would be along the lines of:

• A CSV file with geographic information in it
• a type (geo) in json table schema
  • should we also have: geopoint (as we do currently)
• a specification of the obvious format options such as: "geojson", "kml", "topojson", "geopoint"

Consideration of conventions for:

• popup info (description)
• handling lon / lat as separate columns (e.g. convention that one can have columns latitude (lat), longitude (lon) instead of a single geopoint column

[rufuspollock]

@amercader + @jalbertbowden @maxogden love thoughts here ...

[jalbertbowden]

interesting...

is this to minimize file size? .geojson, from what i've seen, are much larger than the .csv's i've used to generate the .geojson files.

i don't know enough here to give any substantial feedback, need to research. but smaller files are always better ;)

[pwalsh]

DUPLICATE. Closed in favour of #86

[rufuspollock]

@pwalsh it is good to list reason for closing e.g. FIXED | WONTFIX | DUPLICATE and apply appropriate label (i know that is duplication but one is for people reading down the comments and one is for when reading lists and filtering).