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Fiona Gregory Apr 17, 2023

There is a new geospatial data format: geoparquet https://getindata.com/blog/introducing-geoparquet-data-format/
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Introducing the Geoparquet data format

In recent years, a lot of geospatial frameworks have been created to process and analyze big geospatial data from various data sources. A lot of them struggled with a unified data format which can be distributed across many machines.. Yet, there are problems, like size limits, problems with compressions, multi-file format, etc. And the answer to those problem is geopargquet data format. Read more about it, in GetInData new blogpost.

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Joana Simoes

@fionag11 Thanks for sharing! I think it is worth adding the GitHub repo of the project, in case people want to check it out (or even contribute)! 🙂 https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet

GitHub - opengeospatial/geoparquet: Specification for storing geospatial vector data (point, line, polygon) in Parquet

Specification for storing geospatial vector data (point, line, polygon) in Parquet - GitHub - opengeospatial/geoparquet: Specification for storing geospatial vector data (point, line, polygon) in P...

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