GIS Tool

Geographic Information Systems program.

This is a tool to work with geographic data. It takes a number of geographic entities (Waypoints, Tracks) as input, and outputs them in a standard format called GeoJSON.

Unfortunately, the tool (even though it works) suffers from bad engineering. You should fix it up and eliminate that technical debt.

Running

You should be able to run it already:

ruby gis.rb

This will give GeoJSON output for some features that have been added in the code:

{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[{"type": "Feature","properties":
{"title": "home","icon": "flag"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates
":[-121.5,45.5,30]}},{"type": "Feature","properties": {"title": "store",
"icon": "dot"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-121.5,45.6]}},
{"type": "Feature","properties": {"title": "track 1"},"geometry": {"type
": "MultiLineString","coordinates": [[[45,-122],[46,-122],[46,-121]],[[4
5,-121],[46,-121]]]}},{"type": "Feature","properties": {"title": "track 
2"},"geometry": {"type": "MultiLineString","coordinates": [[[45.5,-121],
[45.5,-122]]]}}]}

If you pipe it into the program json_print.rb, it should pretty it up for you:

ruby gis.rb | ruby json_print.rb

If the above command fails with an error in parse, it means the JSON is malformed and needs to be fixed.

(See the example at the bottom for sample output from this command.)

Testing

You can run some unit tests with:

ruby tc_gis.rb

These tests depend on the method names, so if you change those, be sure to change them in the tests, too.

The tests convert the JSON strings to Ruby hashes for the comparison so it should work even if the order of elements in the JSON is changed.

What to Do

1. Fork this repo. Clone your fork to your computer.

2. Refactor the code so that it follows the principles introduced this quarter. Anything in the code can be changed, but the output should remain the same.

3. Commit and push your fork.

4. Submit a link to your fork.

Hints

• UNDERSTAND THE CODE AND THE PROBLEM BEFORE YOU START!

• Make small changes.

• Test the code at every change. See the note about running unit tests, above.

• If the change works, commit it.

• If the change doesn't work, figure out what's amiss or roll back the previous commit.

• You can get a diff from the previous commit with:

  git diff
  

• You can revert uncommitted changes to the previous commit. WARNING: this unceremoniously destroys any changes to the file you've made since the last commit!

  git checkout gis.rb
  

• Though not required, the json module might be useful.

• The JSON must be valid. It can have extraneous whitespace or different formatting, but it must parse.

About GeoJson

Data Representation

• Latitude, longitude: these are decimal degrees (no minutes or seconds). West is negative latitude. South is negative longitude.

  Example: Bend, Oregon is at longitude -121.3, latitude 44.05

• Elevation: given in meters above sea level.

Data Types

There are three types of data you can represent:

• Waypoint: This is a point represented by a latitude, longitude, and optional elevation. A waypoint also has an optional name and icon. (e.g. a name might be "ACME Dining" and the icon might be "restaurant".)

• Track Segment: This is a list of latitude/longitude pairs (with optional elevation). The points of a Track Segment do not have names or icons. The Track Segment represents a section of a Track.

• Track: This is a list of Track Segments. It has an optional name.

GeoJSON Format

Look at the example in the next section for context. Make sure you can match up the following with that example before proceeding.

The GeoJSON file is an object with two fields:

• "type" is "FeatureCollection"
• "features" is an array of features

The features are objects with three fields:

• "type" is "Feature"
• "properties" is an object that contains additional properties
• "geometry" is an object that defines the shape of the feature

The geometry objects contain two fields:

• "type" is either "Point" for a single point, or "MultiLineString" for tracks
• "coordinates" are the coordinates that define the object. This is a single longitude/latitude/elevation for Points. It is an array of arrays of points for MultiLineStrings.

Example GeoJSON File

{
    "type":"FeatureCollection",
    "features":[
        {
            "type":"Feature",
            "properties":{
                "title":"home",
                "icon":"flag"
            },
            "geometry":{
                "type":"Point",
                "coordinates":[ -121.5, 45.5, 30 ]
            }
        },
        {
            "type":"Feature",
            "properties":{
                "title":"store",
                "icon":"dot"
            },
            "geometry":{
                "type":"Point",
                "coordinates":[ -121.5, 45.6 ]
            }
        },
        {
            "type":"Feature",
            "properties":{
                "title":"track 1"
            },
            "geometry":{
                "type":"MultiLineString",
                "coordinates":[
                    [
                        [ -122, 45 ], [ -122, 46 ], [ -121, 46 ]
                    ],
                    [
                        [ -121, 45 ], [ -121, 46 ]
                    ]
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "type":"Feature",
            "properties":{
                "title":"track 2"
            },
            "geometry":{
                "type":"MultiLineString",
                "coordinates":[
                    [
                        [ -121, 45.5 ], [ -122, 45.5 ]
                    ]
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}