# \[ANN\] Turf.jl: a port of the Turf.js library

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-turf-jl-a-port-of-the-turf-js-library/26151>\
**Category:** Package Announcements\
**Tags:** package, announcement\
**Created:** [July 8, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-turf-jl-a-port-of-the-turf-js-library/26151 "2019-07-08T20:07:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![philoez98](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/philoez98/32/9255_2.png) [@philoez98](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/philoez98)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-turf-jl-a-port-of-the-turf-js-library/26151/1 "2019-07-08T20:07:23Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I’m pleased to announce that `Turf.jl` is an officially registered package and available now to use!

If you want to check it out, `Turf.jl` is on [GitHub!](https://github.com/philoez98/Turf.jl)

`Turf.jl` is a port of the `Turf.js` library, a geospatial engine written in JavaScript. It can interact with any kind of geographic data, as long as it is compliant with the GeoJSON specification.  
`Turf.jl` is built upon the `GeoJSON.jl` and `GeoInterface.jl` modules.

It is still under development, since it’s still missing documentation and also some of `Turf.js` functionalities.

This package aims to add more depth enriching the geo-spatial modules currently available in Julia, as well as giving some more tools to interact with spatial data in a nice and fairly simple way.  
I would be happy to listen to the community and adapt the package to their needs adding new functionalities!

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**Author:** ![philoez98](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/philoez98/32/9255_2.png) [@philoez98](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/philoez98)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-turf-jl-a-port-of-the-turf-js-library/26151/2 "2019-07-20T14:08:14Z")

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Turf [v0.2.0](https://github.com/philoez98/Turf.jl/releases/tag/v0.2.0) is now out!

Some notable features:

- Documentation with examples (more are coming…)
- `simplify` function to simplify any given Geometry
- `overlap` function to test whether two Geometries overlap
- `clean` to remove redundant coordinates from any Geometry/Feature

To learn more about this update, take a look at the [Changelog](https://github.com/philoez98/Turf.jl/blob/v0.2.0/Changelog.md) and at the Turf Github [repo](https://github.com/philoez98/Turf.jl). Thanks!