# GeoJSON
**Entity class:** Geospatial data format
## Definition
**GeoJSON** is a JSON-based format for representing geographic features and geometries such as points, lines, polygons, and collections, together with properties. In traceability systems, a farm boundary can be represented as a polygon whose coordinates are checked against forest, protected-area, and other spatial layers.
## Relationships
- **standards route:** JSON, geographic coordinates, polygons, and feature properties.
- **platform use:** [[wiki/ICE Commodity Traceability|ICE CoT]] farm-plot uploads.
- **analytic chain:** [[wiki/Space Intelligence|Space Intelligence]] maps → polygon overlay → risk/validation results.
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [RFC 7946 — The GeoJSON Format](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7946)
- [ICE CoT public methodology](https://www.ice.com/publicdocs/ICE_CoT_Public_Methodology.pdf)