Support TopoJson
Support topoJson format in HighMaps. This format is about 80% smaller than geoJson
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We should definitely add this to Highmaps, possibly as a plugin. There are available tools for converting to and from GeoJSON/TopoJSON: https://github.com/mbostock/topojson. Assuming these are licensed such that we can use them it might not be a lot of work to add support for this. Adding native export to TopoJSON for the map collection would be a lot of work, so hopefully the GeoJSON converter does a good job of detecting topology on its own.
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James U commented
Hope you add this soon. TopoJSON files are so much smaller.
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Toby Bellwood commented
There's also a compressed GeoJSON variant that does a similar task - https://github.com/mapbox/geobuf
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Themba|yena Ntleki commented
topoJSON seems to be having a smaller file size in comparison to geoJSON for the same shape file.
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Anonymous commented
I agree...we have been developing map dashboards using d3 & Leaflet but Highcharts is more interesting & easy to use. Would request support to load TopoJSON.