{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapbox/geobuf/issues/34","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapbox/geobuf/issues/34/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapbox/geobuf/issues/34/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapbox/geobuf/issues/34/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mapbox/geobuf/issues/34","id":54773582,"number":34,"title":"Compatibility with \"classic GIS file formats\"","user":{"login":"joto","id":113756,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/113756?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto","html_url":"https://github.com/joto","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joto/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-01-19T14:58:15Z","updated_at":"2015-01-20T10:48:50Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I think we need to think about compatibility with \"classic GIS file formats\" like Shapefiles. What I mean by that is all those formats that only support one type of geometry per layer and maybe even only one layer per file. It should be well defined how those files map to Geobuf files. I am **not** saying we should limit ourselves to what those files support. But I think it would be useful to define a subset of the Geobuf format that is guaranteed to map well to those formats. Maybe even define some flag that can be set promising that the file contents behave in that way."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapbox/geobuf/issues/comments/70635883","html_url":"https://github.com/mapbox/geobuf/issues/34#issuecomment-70635883","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapbox/geobuf/issues/34","id":70635883,"user":{"login":"mourner","id":25395,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25395?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner","html_url":"https://github.com/mourner","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mourner/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-20T10:48:50Z","updated_at":"2015-01-20T10:48:50Z","body":"Not sure about this. I'm inclined to keep away from supporting those formats directly, and instead rely on \"third-party formats\" <-> GeoJSON/TopoJSON <-> Geobuf mapping. That would save us a lot of headache."}}