diff --git a/compress.js b/compress.js
index 9ecc194..28cf24c 100644
--- a/compress.js
+++ b/compress.js
@@ -7,13 +7,18 @@ if (typeof Map == 'undefined' || !Object.entries) {
     return;
 }
 
+var isFinite = Number.isFinite || function isFinite() {
+    return false;
+};
+
 /**
  * @param {array} value
  * @returns {Boolean} is this an array where all fields are numbers (including the empty array).
  */
-function isNumericArray(value) {
-    for (var i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
-        if (typeof (value[i]) !== 'number') {
+function isNumericArray(array) {
+    for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
+        var v = array[i];
+        if (typeof (v) !== 'number' || !isFinite(v)) {
             return false;
         }
     }
diff --git a/test/validate.test.js b/test/validate.test.js
index 0975f13..4ff2633 100644
--- a/test/validate.test.js
+++ b/test/validate.test.js
@@ -139,7 +139,26 @@ test('can compress memory and deduplicate points', function (t) {
     t.same(polygon[0], [1, 0], 'should preserve value');
     t.end();
 });
+test('compress should skip invalid numbers', function (t) {
+    var INF = 1 / 0;
+    // JSON.stringify doesn't support INF
+    var original = [[INF], [-INF], [0], [0], [INF]];
+    var compressedData = geobuf.compress(original, new Map(), new Map());
+    t.same([[INF], [-INF], [0], [0], [INF]], compressedData);
+    t.strictEqual(compressedData[2], compressedData[3]);
+    t.notStrictEqual(compressedData[0], compressedData[4]);
+    t.end();
+});
+test('compress should skip NAN', function (t) {
+    var original = [[0, Number.NaN], [0, null]];
+    var compressedData = geobuf.compress(original, new Map(), new Map());
+    t.strictEqual(compressedData[0][0], 0);
+    t.same(compressedData[1], [0, null]);
+    t.ok(Number.isNaN(compressedData[0][1]));
+    t.end();
+});
 function roundtripTest(geojson) {
+
     return function (t) {
         var buf = geobuf.encode(geojson, new Pbf());
         var geojson2 = geobuf.decode(new Pbf(buf));