User Story: provide map-based preview of additional geodata file types: KML, SHP, others about dkan

[acouch]

For shape files the best solution I could find was to do it on the front end as opposed to converting to geojson on the back end. We could just take zip files which is the most common format, unwrap them, and use this: https://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js

[dafeder]

We've done some additional research more recently; there is a bunch of tooling these days around transforming shapefiles to geojson, which could then obviously be visualized with existing tools. We'd still like to do this and are considering bumping up the priority and trying to fund this feature...

[akuckartz]

.shp still is a proprietary ESRI-specific format. And ArcGIS is proprietary software.

[dafeder]

@akuckartz while technically proprietary and therefore not ideal, the shapefile specification is relatively open, and there are fully FOSS tools for parsing and visualizing them that we can leverage. We are certainly not talking about creating any ArcGIS dependencies for DKAN. What are you advocating for here?

[dharizza]

Security updates and bug fixes only in the D7 version of DKAN. Closing.