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Turf is a modular geospatial analysis engine written in JavaScript. It performs geospatial processing tasks with GeoJSON data and can be run on a server or in a browser.
This module is part of the Turfjs project, an open source module collection dedicated to geographic algorithms. It is maintained in the Turfjs/turf repository, where you can create PRs and issues.
Install this module individually:
$ npm install turf
Or install the Turf module that includes it as a function:
$ npm install turf
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a JavaScript library for performing geospatial operations with GeoJSON
The npm package turf receives a total of 17,937 weekly downloads. As such, turf popularity was classified as popular.
We found that turf demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 9 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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