mapbox/tilemill — Issue #880: support datacouch.com csv 
Author: springmeyer
Created: 2011-11-04 16:48:13+00:00
State: open

We should be able to read into tilemill directly from datacouch tables that have geodata like: http://datacouch.com/edit/#/dc8364385fc612b847d66ca7886519749c

But to get this working we'll need:

1) Support in Mapnik's csv plugin for parsing GeoJSON coordinate arrays (basically a JSON -> Geometry converter in Mapnik). Work is underway on this at https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/tree/json-spirit-parser

2) The ability in the Mapnik csv plugin to detect whether a geometry field contains WKT, JSON, or some other potential geometry format.

Since this need is driven directly by TileMill, keeping this ticket here and open for now rather than Mapnik issues.