Merge GeoJSON Polygons with WGS84 Coordinates – How to Guide

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I have a Geojson file with some adjacent polygons and I want to merge them into one. I know it's a recurrent question but I can't find information for polygons with latitude and longitude coordinates like in this geojson :

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}

raw polygons

Is there a way to build a master polygon with the external form of all polygons?

Best Answer

You can use Mapshaper for this, and then dissolve from the command line:

mapshaper --dissolve -i your_data.geojson