openplans/shareabouts — comment on commit 8dfd2fec5bead4d06a47573912e92ca542a663bb
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By juliamae:

Hey Max! Yea I'm definitely aware of GeoJSON. We were returning our points as GeoJSON for a while but have since decided against it because we want to slim down our responses & the degree of manipulation we would need on the front end to turn the GeoJSON into a collection we can easily work with. It might make sense to return GeoJSON for these polygons as there probably won't be nearly as many polygons as there are points, and we are currently using the polygons much differently on the front ends than the points. However, we also want to have consistency across all our map features.

We've talked about having a separate API, in which it would make a lot of sense to return GeoJSON, specifically so that we can plug into other GIS tools, and that might be on the way soon.