GeoJSON.Text

GeoJSON.Text is a .NET library for the RFC 7946 The GeoJSON Format and it uses and provides System.Text.Json converters for serialization and deserialization of GeoJSON data.

Installation & Usage

GeoJSON.Text NuGet package:

Install-Package GeoJSON.Text

Serialization

Position position = new Position(51.899523, -2.124156);
Point point = new Point(position);

string json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(point);

Deserialization

string json = "{\"coordinates\":[-2.124156,51.899523],\"type\":\"Point\"}";

Point point = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Point>(json);

See the Tests for more examples.

Special considerations for Newtonsoft.Json

GeoJSON.Text is made to support System.Text.Json, and does not support serializing or deserializing GeoJSON models using Newtonsoft.Json.

If Newtonsoft.Json support is needed, please use GeoJSON.Net.

GeoJSON.Text vs. GeoJSON.NET

This project uses the System.Text.Json serializers, which has become the default and recommended serializers in .NET Core 3.1+.

Benchmarks shows that serializing and deserializing using System.Text.Json is approximately 100% quicker then Newtonsoft.Json and result in 75% less memory allocation when deserializing and 50% less memory allocation when serializing.

Benchmarks

Serializing comparison

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.1, OS=Windows 10.0.19042.1415 (20H2/October2020Update)
Intel Core i7-9850H CPU 2.60GHz, 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=6.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-WNYOAA : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-AAKTUU : .NET 5.0.13 (5.0.1321.56516), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-AEYDDU : .NET Core 3.1.22 (CoreCLR 4.700.21.56803, CoreFX 4.700.21.57101), X64 RyuJIT

IterationCount=15  LaunchCount=2  WarmupCount=10  

Method	Job	Runtime	Toolchain	N	Mean	Error	StdDev	Ratio	RatioSD	Rank	Gen 0	Gen 1	Gen 2	Allocated
SerializeSystemTextJson	Job-WNYOAA	.NET 6.0	net60	100000	167.3 ms	7.28 ms	10.44 ms	1.00	0.00	I	2000.0000	-	-	35 MB
SerializeSystemTextJson	Job-AAKTUU	.NET 5.0	net50	100000	188.0 ms	5.44 ms	7.80 ms	?	?	I	2000.0000	-	-	65 MB
SerializeSystemTextJson	Job-AEYDDU	.NET Core 3.1	netcoreapp31	100000	235.6 ms	7.85 ms	11.26 ms	?	?	I	2333.3333	333.3333	333.3333	65 MB
SerializeNewtonsoft	Job-WNYOAA	.NET 6.0	net60	100000	352.3 ms	17.33 ms	24.86 ms	2.11	0.16	II	14000.0000	3000.0000	-	112 MB
SerializeNewtonsoft	Job-AAKTUU	.NET 5.0	net50	100000	376.6 ms	12.81 ms	19.17 ms	?	?	II	14000.0000	3000.0000	-	112 MB
SerializeNewtonsoft	Job-AEYDDU	.NET Core 3.1	netcoreapp31	100000	429.6 ms	7.57 ms	10.61 ms	?	?	II	14000.0000	3000.0000	-	112 MB

Deserializing comparison

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.1, OS=Windows 10.0.19042.1415 (20H2/October2020Update)
Intel Core i7-9850H CPU 2.60GHz, 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=6.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-WNYOAA : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-AAKTUU : .NET 5.0.13 (5.0.1321.56516), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-AEYDDU : .NET Core 3.1.22 (CoreCLR 4.700.21.56803, CoreFX 4.700.21.57101), X64 RyuJIT

IterationCount=15  LaunchCount=2  WarmupCount=10  

Method	Job	Runtime	Toolchain	N	Mean	Error	StdDev	Ratio	RatioSD	Rank	Gen 0	Gen 1	Gen 2	Allocated
DeserializeSystemTextJson	Job-WNYOAA	.NET 6.0	net60	100000	719.6 ms	38.29 ms	57.31 ms	1.00	0.00	I	32000.0000	12000.0000	1000.0000	201 MB
DeserializeSystemTextJson	Job-AAKTUU	.NET 5.0	net50	100000	787.3 ms	22.38 ms	32.80 ms	?	?	I	32000.0000	12000.0000	1000.0000	201 MB
DeserializeSystemTextJson	Job-AEYDDU	.NET Core 3.1	netcoreapp31	100000	894.6 ms	25.84 ms	37.87 ms	?	?	I	32000.0000	12000.0000	1000.0000	200 MB
DeserializeNewtonsoft	Job-WNYOAA	.NET 6.0	net60	100000	1,410.8 ms	27.59 ms	40.44 ms	1.96	0.13	II	146000.0000	37000.0000	1000.0000	870 MB
DeserializeNewtonsoft	Job-AAKTUU	.NET 5.0	net50	100000	1,430.7 ms	31.66 ms	46.40 ms	?	?	II	146000.0000	37000.0000	1000.0000	870 MB
DeserializeNewtonsoft	Job-AEYDDU	.NET Core 3.1	netcoreapp31	100000	1,656.4 ms	40.05 ms	58.71 ms	?	?	II	145000.0000	37000.0000	1000.0000	869 MB

Contributing

Highly welcome! Just fork away and send a pull request. We try and review most pull requests within a couple of days.

Thanks

This library would be NOTHING without its contributors - thanks so much!!

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