Learn about the GeoParquet data format: why it was created, its advantages, current implementations, technical details, and more.
Geoparquet
- This post shows you how GeoArrow and GeoParquet make it easier to get fast performance rendering large datasets, describing the GeoArrow memory format in detail.
- This talk introduces a geospatial extension to the Parquet file format (GeoParquet) and a geospatial extension to the Arrow columnar format (GeoArrow).
- Read here about the motivations for using Apache Arrow in geospatial and how it can make geospatial computing faster for everybody.
- This interactive notebook introduces the GeoParquet format and demonstrates rendering a dataset of 3.2 million points in this format on a web map.
- The first release of GeoParquet is out. This is a new geospatial vector data (point, line, polygon) format that is built on Parquet, an columnar-storage format. See here for more information.
