geojson2postgres

Copy a geojson file to PostgreSQL

This package supports both a command line interface as well as a programmable API.

Command Line

To install:

npm install -g geojson2postgres

To run:

geojson2postgres <filename> <args> | psql <db>

args:
  --create (-c): drop the database if it exists and recreate it
  --file (-f) <filename>: the GeoJSON file to be processed
  --tablename (-t) <tablename>: the name of the SQL table to be created (defaults to the name of the GeoJSON file)

API

copyToDB(tablename, file, schema, emitRow)

Process a GeoJSON file and generate a PostgreSQL script to insert each feature into a database

Kind: global function

Param	Type	Description
tablename	string	Name of table to create in the database (table should not already exist)
file	string	Name of the input GeoJSON file
schema	Array.<{name: string, type: string}>	The schema of the table to be created. name is a column name and type is the type for that column
emitRow	function	A function that takes in a single GeoJSON feature and returns an object where the keys are column names defined in the schema and the values are the values to be entered into each column

Example

copyToDB({
	tablename : 'columbian_municipalities',
	file : process.argv[2],
	schema : [{name : 'department', type : 'text'}, {name : 'municipality', type : 'text'}],
	emitRow : function(feature){
		return {
			municipality : feature.properties.NOMBRE_MPI,
			department : feature.properties.NOMBRE_DPT
		};
	},
})

Where the json file looks something like:

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "crs": {
    "type": "name",
    "properties": {
      "name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"
    }
  },
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {
        "AREA": 7516765785.590000,
        "PERIMETER": 475636.130236,
        "WCOLGEN02_": 2,
        "WCOLGEN021": 566,
        "DPTO": "44",
        "NOMBRE_DPT": "LA GUAJIRA",
        "MPIO": "847",
        "NOMBRE_MPI": "URIBIA",
        "NOMBRE_CAB": "URIBIA",
        "CLASEMUN": "CM",
        "MPIOS": "44847",
        "ZONA": "ZONA06",
        "OF_REG": "DABAR",
        "REG_ZONAS": "DABARZONA06",
        "HECTARES": 751676.579000
      },
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [
          [
            [
              -71.416042649212045,
              11.786808467660752
            ],
    		...
            [
              -71.416042649212045,
              11.786808467660752
            ]
          ]
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}