# geojson.io

A fast, simple tool to create, change, and publish maps.

# Chrome Extension

Download the latest release of the geojson.io extension to add a 'geojson.io' button to applicable Gists and files on GitHub.

# Open Source

This site is an open source project.

# License & Restrictions

This is open source software under the permissive MIT license. That license applies to the software and not the data you create with geojson.io - you can safely edit private, copywritten, open, or any other kind of data with this tool without the tool changing its legal status.

# FAQ

## So I've made a map, what do I do now?

If you just want to share your map, you can click the 'Share' tab and send a link to friends, or grab HTML for embedding it on your website.

For more flexibility, download the GeoJSON data and you can use it with a number of different tools:

- TileMill is an open source, free desktop application for designing maps with awesome style flexibility.
- QGIS is an open source, free desktop application for doing GIS analysis on data.
- Leaflet is an open source map framework for embedding maps in webpages.

## How Do I Import Shapefiles or unsupported formats?

geojson.io doesn't support Shapefile import directly, but you can convert Shapefiles to GeoJSON first, and then upload GeoJSON to geojson.io.

- ogre, an online tool for shapefile to geojson conversion
- shpescape, another online tool that supports conversion
- Arc2Earth, an ArcGIS plugin that exports GeoJSON
- esri2open, a python script that converts ESRI Feature classes to GeoJSON