AmᵃᵖandaFeb 20

Should the @geofabrik Download Server offer #GeoParquet files?

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OSM data in GeoParquet format

There has been some discussion about OSM data in GeoParquet format, most recently in The last hurrah for OSM - #44 by SimonPoole. Apparently there many different ways to stuff OSM data into some form of Parquet; osm-parquetizer does it with raw data, ohsome-planet builds geometries even for historical data, and cadencemaps tries to emulate Overture’s POI schema. As the person running the Geofabrik download server I have been wondering if I could add some simple form of GeoParquet files to the d...

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Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 20
@amapanda @geofabrik I reckon 95% of people who use the Geofabrik exports have never even heard of GeoParquet
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 20
@amapanda @geofabrik I still have trouble trying to convince people that GeoPackage is better than Shapefile
Show threadAmᵃᵖanda
@russss @geofabrik I switched away from #shapefiles to #geopackage because shp can't be more than 4 (or is it 2) GiB.
Otherwise I haven't been convinced...
Feb 20 at 2:59pmWeb
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 20

@amapanda it's 2 GiB but there's an extension which allows you to go larger which should be supported by most software these days!

Most annoying thing about shapefile is the multi-file structure, especially if you have lots of layers. Second most annoying thing is that the field names are limited to 10 characters.