GeoCSV

Specification of a 'modern' CSV with a geometry extension of either two easting/northing colums or one WKT column!

Encoding is UTF-8 by default.
First row contains attribute names separated by a => delimiter.
Following rows are contains values separated by a => delimiter.
Delimiter is semicolon (;) by default.
Strings are enclosed by parantheses, to allow delimiters inside (e.g. "string").
Data types (if supported from source or target system): See CSVT file format specification.
Coordinate system is WGS84 (EPSG:4326) by default.

GeoCSV is based on CSV. The extension comes with two variants: Options easting/northing and Options WKT.

Option "easting/northing" (longitude/latitude, similar to x/y in mathematics):

Geometry Point type as two neighboring columns of type Float: one containing the easting coordinate, and one containing northing coordinate separated by the common delimiter.
Example for the two easting/northing columnts "8.8249;47.2274".
This option supports only Points.

Option WKT:

It' one single column of type String containing a constructor, like for example: "POINT (8.8249 47.2274)".
This option supports Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon.
WKT ("Well Known Text") is originally defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and described in their Simple Feature Access specification (also ISO SQL/MM). See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text

Common restrictions:

There is only one geometry column allowed per sheet.
All geometry values within one table are in the same coordinate reference system (CRS).

Field/column types, case insensitive (if supported from source or target system):

Notes:

The geometry types are a kind of subtype: easting and northing values are stored as float, option WKT is stored in one column of type String.
See also http://www.gdal.org/drv_csv.html section with .csvt extension.

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