terraformer-wkt-parser

Terraformer Well-Known Text Parser

This package is part of the Terraformer project.

A bare-bones WKT parser. Given a WKT primitive, it parses and returns a Terraformer Primitive.

Installing

Node.js

$ npm install terraformer-wkt-parser

Browser

In the browser, Terraformer is required to be used as well.

$ bower install terraformer-wkt-parser

Documentation

For full documentation check out the offical website.

var wkt = require('terraformer-wkt-parser');

// parse a WKT file, convert it into a primitive
var primitive = wkt.parse('LINESTRING (30 10, 10 30, 40 40)');

// take a primitive and convert it into a WKT representation
var polygon = wkt.convert(
  {
    "type": "Polygon",
    "coordinates": [
      [ [100.0, 0.0], [101.0, 0.0], [101.0, 1.0], [100.0, 1.0], [100.0, 0.0] ],
      [ [100.2, 0.2], [100.8, 0.2], [100.8, 0.8], [100.2, 0.8], [100.2, 0.2] ]
    ]
  }
);

    <!-- Load the main Terraformer library -->
    <script src="terraformer.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    
    <!-- Load the WKT Parser -->
    <script src="terraformer-wkt-parser.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    
    <!-- Use it! -->
    <script>
      var primitive = Terraformer.WKT.parse('LINESTRING (30 10, 10 30, 40 40)');
    </script>

Resources

• Terraformer Website
• twitter@EsriPDX

Issues

Find a bug or want to request a new feature? Please let us know by submitting an issue.

Contributing

Esri welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone. Please see our guidelines for contributing.

[](Esri Tags: Terraformer GeoJSON WKT Well-Known-Text) [](Esri Language: JavaScript)

Changelog

[1.1.0] - 2016-03-11

Added

• Support for coordinates in Scientific Notation

Fixed

• Allow module to be loaded in Browser via CommonJS