alt Hacker NewsSo don’t simplify the shapes on their own. Geojson is a storage and exchange format, you can still convert it to other formats if you want to modify it.
So don’t simplify the shapes on their own. Geojson is a storage and exchange format, you can still convert it to other formats if you want to modify it.
I think what the original comment is pointing out is that GeoJSON lacks a concept of a shared boundary. Shared boundaries expressed in GeoJSON get around that by duplicating data. Whenever data is duplicated, there's a risk that the copies will not be exactly the same. That makes the task of modification more challenging given that the real world is full of messy data, like duplicates not matching.
20-25 years ago I worked a lot with map data from otherwise high quality, and sometimes authoritative, sources like the USGS and NOAA that had this non-identical shared boundaries problem (in formats other than GeoJSON). If the format doesn't allow such mistakes to be expressed, then they have to fix their data to publish it in said format.