terraformer

Terraformer

A modular toolkit for working with geographic data.

Modules

The Terraformer project is broken up into a series of smaller modules.

• Terraformer Core - Contains methods and objects for working with GeoJSON. This also contains common methods used by other modules.
• WKT Parser - Parse Well Known Text into GeoJSON and vice versa.
• ArcGIS Geometry Parser - Parse the ArcGIS Geometry Format into GeoJSON and vice versa.
• GeoStore - A framework for persisting and querying GeoJSON features with pluggable indexes and persistent stores.

Features

• Designed to work in Node and the browser
• No dependencies on other tools or libraries

Getting Started

Check out the getting started guide which will give you an overview of core concepts and methods in Terraformer.

Node.js

Install the core module with NPM and then require it in your Node program.

$ npm install terraformer

var Terraformer = require('terraformer');

If needed, supporting packages can be added too.

require('terraformer-arcgis-parser');
require('terraformer-wkt-parser');
require('terraformer-geostore');

Browser

To use the Terraformer library, include a reference to it using a <script> tag.

<script src="http://cdn-geoweb.s3.amazonaws.com/terraformer/1.0.4/terraformer.min.js"></script>

To utilize supporting packages, you must load their source as well.

<script src="terraformer-arcgis-parser.min.js"></script> <!-- https://github.com/Esri/terraformer-arcgis-parser -->
<script src="terraformer-wkt-parser.min.js"></script> <!-- https://github.com/Esri/terraformer-wkt-parser -->
<script src="terraformer-geostore.min.js"></script> <!-- https://github.com/Esri/terraformer-geostore -->

Documentation

Make sure your check out the full documentation on the Terraformer website and the getting started guide.

var polygon = new Terraformer.Primitive({
  "type": "Polygon",
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [-122.665894, 45.5229015],
      [-122.669263, 45.5229165],
      [-122.671151, 45.5184062],
      [-122.673254, 45.5140008],
      [-122.668426, 45.5127378],
      [-122.667654, 45.5169478],
      [-122.665894, 45.5229015]
    ]
  ]
});

var point = new Terraformer.Primitive({
  "type": "Point",
  "coordinates": [-122.669477, 45.517760]
});

Now that you have a point and a polygon primitive you can use the primitive helper methods.

// add a new vertex to our polygon
polygon.insertVertex([-122.670851, 45.513189], 2);

// figure out if our point is within our polygon
point.within(polygon); // returns true

You can also have Terraformer perform many geometric operations like convex hulls and bounding boxes.

var convexHull = polygon.convexHull();

point.within(convexHull); // returns true

var boundingBox = polygon.bbox(); // returns the geojson bounding box for this object.

Resources

• Terraformer Website
• twitter@EsriPDX

Building the documentation

To build the site locally, first bundle install then bundle exec middleman to run a local server. Maintainers can run bundle exec middleman build, then grunt gh-pages to deploy to github pages.

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) [](Esri Language: JavaScript)

Changelog

[1.0.6] - 2016-08-17

Added

• typings for TypeScript folks (thx @JeffJacobson) #20
• lots of little website improvements