simplestyle

simplestyle-spec

A simple specification for styling GeoJSON data.

Versions

1.1.0

Adds properties to permit styling of Polygon and LineString types.

1.0.0

Initial release: this defines only three keys and an example encoding.

Implementations

Authors

• Tom MacWright
• Will White
• Dave Cole
• Young Hahn

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simplestyle-spec

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

1. Purpose

This specification attempts to create a standard for styling geospatial data that can be shared across clients.

2. File format

simplestyle is a set of agreed-upon 'special values' in the pre-existing GeoJSON data standard that define styles. As such, files implementing simplestyle are by definition valid GeoJSON files and valid JSON files.

3. Client Behavior

The entirety of the simplestyle spec is optional, so any combination of specified properties are valid. When properties are not given, the defaults below are assumed by implementations.

Multi features are assumed to have the same styling rules as single features--- MultiPoints are styled as Points, MultiPolygons as Polygons, and MultiLineStrings as LineStrings. marker styles do not affect stroke and fill rules and vice versa. The behavior of fill rules on LineStrings is undefined, but implementations are encouraged to set fill to 0 by default in that case.

// COLOR RULES
// Colors can be in short form:
//   "#ace"
// or long form
//   "#aaccee"
// with or without the # prefix.
// Colors are interpreted the same as in CSS,
// in #RRGGBB and #RGB order.
// But other color formats or named colors
// are not supported
{
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [{ "type": "Feature",
        "geometry": {
            "type": "Point",
            "coordinates": [0, 0]
        },
        "properties": {
            // OPTIONAL: default ""
            // A title to show when this item is clicked or
            // hovered over
            "title": "A title",

            // OPTIONAL: default ""
            // A description to show when this item is clicked or
            // hovered over
            "description": "A description",

            // OPTIONAL: default "medium"
            // specify the size of the marker. sizes
            // can be different pixel sizes in different
            // implementations
            // Value must be one of
            // "small"
            // "medium"
            // "large"
            "marker-size": "medium",

            // OPTIONAL: default ""
            // a symbol to position in the center of this icon
            // if not provided or "", no symbol is overlaid
            // and only the marker is shown
            // Allowed values include
            // - Icon ID from the Maki project at http://mapbox.com/maki/
            // - An integer 0 through 9
            // - A lowercase character "a" through "z"
            "marker-symbol": "bus",

            // OPTIONAL: default "7e7e7e"
            // the marker's color
            //
            // value must follow COLOR RULES
            "marker-color": "#fff",

            // OPTIONAL: default "555555"
            // the color of a line as part of a polygon, polyline, or
            // multigeometry
            //
            // value must follow COLOR RULES
            "stroke": "#555555",

            // OPTIONAL: default 1.0
            // the opacity of the line component of a polygon, polyline, or
            // multigeometry
            //
            // value must be a floating point number greater than or equal to
            // zero and less or equal to than one
            "stroke-opacity": 1.0,

            // OPTIONAL: default 2
            // the width of the line component of a polygon, polyline, or
            // multigeometry
            //
            // value must be a floating point number greater than or equal to 0
            "stroke-width": 2,

            // OPTIONAL: default "555555"
            // the color of the interior of a polygon
            //
            // value must follow COLOR RULES
            "fill": "#555555",

            // OPTIONAL: default 0.6
            // the opacity of the interior of a polygon. Implementations
            // may choose to set this to 0 for line features.
            //
            // value must be a floating point number greater than or equal to
            // zero and less or equal to than one
            "fill-opacity": 0.5
        }
    }]
}