Extract text from geospatial data files (GEOJSON)
To convert GEOJSON geospatial files to another format, you need QGIS or other GIS software.
To convert other file formats to the "Vector Geographic Data" file type, you need software like QGIS or a similar tool.
The .GEOJSON file is an open standard geospatial data format based on JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). It stores geographic features - like points, lines, and polygons - alongside non-spatial attribute data. Developers and cartographers use it primarily to transfer mapping data across web APIs.
You can open these files natively in professional GIS software like QGIS or ArcGIS Pro, or render them using web libraries like Leaflet. You can learn more about the specification on Wikipedia.
Despite its popularity, .GEOJSON has severe disadvantages. Because it relies on uncompressed plain text to define millions of coordinate pairs, file sizes inflate rapidly. A map layer that is 10MB in a binary format can easily exceed 100MB as a .GEOJSON. Opening these large payloads causes web browsers and standard text editors to crash. Additionally, the modern IETF RFC 7946 standard strictly forces the WGS 84 coordinate reference system, meaning it cannot natively store local map projections.
To solve performance issues, you should convert .GEOJSON files to GPKG (GeoPackage) or SHP (Shapefile) for desktop rendering. Convert to KML for 3D visualization in Google Earth, or to CSV to analyze tabular attribute data in a spreadsheet (note that spatial geometries are lost in CSV conversions).
Generic document converters fail to process these files because they cannot parse the complex, deeply nested spatial arrays required to draw map shapes.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GEOJSON file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted JSON, GIS, KML, SHP, SVG, GEO, ZIP, UMAP, PDF, TXT, KMZ, OSM and FLP files.
If you want to convert GEOJSON file to KML, GPX, SVG, DXF, MBTILES, OSM, PNG, XML, SHP, KMZ, TOPOJSON or TIF, you can use QGIS or similar software from the "Geospatial Data Interchange" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or KML files to GEOJSON, try QGIS or another comparable tool in the "Geospatial Data Interchange" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our GEOJSON converter.