terraformer WKT Parser

Well Known Text Parser

Documentation Get WKT Parser

Well Known Text is a format used by databases like PostGIS. With Terraformer’s WKT parser you can convert between this format and GeoJSON.

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

// take a primitive and convert it into a WKT representation
var polygon = Terraformer.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] ]
  ]
});