h3 index converted to Geocoordinates: how to export to geojson about h3-java HOT 4 OPEN

GeoCoord here is an immutable object constructed by H3-Java so as to not tie it to different frameworks. It contains the latitude and longitude in degrees.

We don't currently have the options around GeoJson output formatting. H3-JS needs that option because it represents coordinates as either lat,lng or lng,lat. In Java these are typed fields, so there is no possibility of switching them. We could add support for formatting or parsing H3 geometries into GeoSpark/GeoJSON/WKT/etc. in a module alongside h3-java. I think this would be a separate set of functions so that only users needing that functionality pull in those dependencies.

Unfortunately I am not very familiar with GeoSpark, for your example, I'd suggest adding the conversion to GeoJSON directly to the UDF. E.g. convertToGeoJson(H3.instance.h3ToGeoBoundary(h3Index)) It looks like GeoSpark doesn't permit GeoCoords within Lists - this might be an issue of GeoCoord not implementing Serializable but I'm not 100% sure.

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Thanks for response!
Indeed, such a separate module would be a big plus. The current GeoCoord field comes from https://github.com/uber/h3-java/blob/master/src/main/java/com/uber/h3core/util/GeoCoord.java - for exporting to other geospatial tools it might have been more convenient to just write an array of (lat,long) tuples (without any strings)?

Thanks for the suggestion about the UDF. I believe you might be right about the serializable. I assume convertToGeo should be constructed then using some regular expressions after converting the result of h3ToGeoBoundary to a string, which indeed should be feasible.

Best&good luck with this project.

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You may still be able to avoid string serialization by mapping the GeoCoords into the form you need For example, you could do something like:

List<GeoCoord> coords = h3.h3ToGeoBoundary(index);
// convert to arrays of lat,lon
List<double[]> rawCoords = coords.stream().map(c -> new double[]{c.lat, c.lon}).collect(Collectors.toList());
return rawCoords;

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See #78

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