rooot viewer

Well-Known Text viewer

View Well-Known Text files (.wkt) on a 3D map in your browser. Plain-text geometry encoding from the OGC simple-features spec. No account, no install, no upload until you decide to convert or hand off to the rooot.it route planner.

Open the viewer → or jump straight to a conversion:

About Well-Known Text

WKT is the human-readable text format used everywhere in databases — PostGIS's ST_AsText, Spatialite, MySQL spatial, MS SQL Server spatial. Each line is one geometry: POINT(...), LINESTRING(...), POLYGON(...), and their MULTI* and GEOMETRYCOLLECTION variants.

Typical producers: PostGIS, Spatialite, GDAL/OGR, shapely.
Typical consumers: Any spatial database, GDAL/OGR, shapely.

How to view a Well-Known Text file

  1. Open the viewer.
  2. Drag your Well-Known Text file (.wkt) onto the page, or click the + in the Places panel.
  3. The file renders on a 3D MapLibre globe. Use the right-hand panel to toggle background layers (borders, labels, roads, buildings, transportation, places, terrain).
  4. Click features for details, or use the bottom toolbar to convert to another format.

Convert Well-Known Text to other formats

Well-Known Text viewer FAQ

How do I view WKT geometry online?

Drop a .wkt file (one geometry per line) on rooot viewer. Each line is parsed by shapely and rendered on a 3D map.

Can I convert WKT to GeoJSON?

Yes — drop the .wkt and choose GeoJSON from Convert. Useful for taking a PostGIS ST_AsText() dump into a web map.

Does the WKT writer support MultiPolygon and GeometryCollection?

Yes. The writer emits one WKT per feature line; mixed-type collections preserve their structure via GEOMETRYCOLLECTION.

Is rooot viewer free?

Yes. No account required. There are no per-conversion or per-view charges.

Does rooot viewer upload my files?

Files are parsed server-side for rendering but are not persisted unless you click Convert or Open in roooute. Persisted files are deleted within 24 hours.

Privacy

Files dropped on the main viewer are parsed server-side for rendering but are not persisted. Persistence happens only when you click Convert or Open in roooute; persisted files are deleted within 24 hours. Direct conversions through the per-format converter pages do not persist anything at all.