Exploring the concept of storing GeoJSON features in individual files in a single repository and using virtual layers to visualize them.

This concept should enable:

• Applications to better circumvent GitHub file size limitations
• The ability to fetch only those features required by the application
• The ability to track edits/metadata for individual features (record level metadata)

Approach:

• A dataset is a repo,
• A record in the dataset is a file,
• The assemblage of the dataset is described by a vlayer file (json),
• Views of datasets can be described by other vlayer files (json),
• A (data.json)[http://project-open-data.github.io/schema/] file describes the dataset
• The vlayer and data.json files should be at the repo route

This approach is based upon a concept put forth by Mike Byrne.