GeoJson World Database [closed]

Answer 1

Does this need to be a service? Here's how I've approached this in the past, using free/Open Source tools:

• Download public-domain shape files from Natural Earth Data

• Use Quantum GIS to convert .shp to .geojson (one step, under "Layer > Save As...")

Now you have hi-res GeoJSON data. Here, have some countries.

This is a really big file, though, so you'll want to split it up. But you don't need a service for this, just static files for each country, named by ID. This would be easy enough to produce with a script in your utility of choice (Python, Ruby, node.js).

Answer 2

Take a look at https://github.com/mledoze/countries

It has geoJSONs for each country. (med resolution I would say)

countries.json contain each country description including localized country names, coordinate (at which you can display the label), and capitals names.

Answer 3

Note that, via the GDAL library, you may also use the command-line ogr2ogr to convert shapefiles. For example:

$ ogr2ogr -f geojson source_file.shp dst_file.json

will convert source_file.shp into the GeoJSON-formatted dst_file.json.

Read more here:

Convert a shapefile (.shp) to xml/json

Answer 4

Well, times are changing and some good folks made the shapefile to geojson formatter an online service.

Check the following link: http://ogre.adc4gis.com/

They even open-sourced it: http://github.com/wavded/ogre