# How to make vegalite read my topojson file?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** first-steps, vegalite\
**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-vegalite-read-my-topojson-file/34546 "2020-02-12T22:06:07Z")\
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`LOAD_PATH` is for where julia looks for julia packages, _not_ files for import. You shouldn’t be using `LOAD_PATH` to import files.

Maybe try just working with the global path as a big string instead of messing with `@ __DIR__ ` for now.

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