EUDR GeoJSON validity · portability
TRACES accepted my GeoJSON — but is it actually valid?
TRACES accepted your file and showed no error — so it must be valid, right? Not necessarily. The EUDR import is essentially a JSON-syntax gate plus one geometry check; almost everything else that is semantically wrong is accepted silently. A stricter validator, a re-import, or a competent authority can still reject what TRACES waved through.
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What TRACES does not check
TRACES does not verify coordinate sanity, latitude/longitude order, area semantics, ring closure, geometry type against the plot rules, or the country-code format. It reads only geometry and area from your file — even the ProducerCountry in the file is ignored: the Country of Production comes solely from the form dropdown.
Silently accepted, but not portable
An unclosed polygon ring (first point ≠ last) breaks RFC 7946, but TRACES closes it implicitly and computes an area — so the data looks fine while the file is spec-invalid. Re-import it elsewhere, or hand it to a stricter EUDR validator, and it can bounce. Same with a non-standard country code: fine for TRACES (which ignores it), a problem for any system that reads it.
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Questions
If TRACES accepted my GeoJSON, is it valid?
Not necessarily. TRACES accepts almost anything that is valid JSON with usable geometry; it does not check ring closure, coordinate order, area semantics or country codes. A stricter validator or a competent authority can still reject it.
Does the ProducerCountry in my file set the Country of Production?
No. TRACES ignores the country in the file — the Country of Production comes only from the form dropdown. Make sure the dropdown matches your data.