Track polygon attributes as vanilla JSON

[charparr]

Strip the geometry and export the shape file or GeoJSON to a straight JSON where the index (the id like "NPS7") is the top level. Doing this will facilitate dropping these names into tools for dropdown selections, search results, etc.

import geopandas as gpd
import pandas as pd

df = gpd.read_file("ak_protected_areas.shp")
x = df.copy()
del x['geometry']
z = pd.DataFrame(x)
z.T.to_json("ak_protected_areas_no_geometry.json")```

to generate a JSON like:

  {
    "id": 19070506,
    "name": "Charley River-Yukon River",
    "alt_name": "",
    "type": "huc"
  },