First attempt to write Apache Arrow geometries (see unit tests), file gets written but nothing is visualized in QGIS (probably because geometry column type):
var columns = new Column[]
{
new Column<string>("city"),
new Column<Double?[]>("geometry")
};
var bbox = new double[] { 3.3583782525105832,
50.750367484598314,
7.2274984508458306,
53.555014517907608};
var geometadata = GeoMetadata.GetGeoMetadata("Point", bbox, encoding: "geoarrow.point");
var parquetFileWriter = new ParquetFileWriter(@"writing_sample_arrow.parquet", columns, Compression.Snappy, geometadata);
var rowGroup = parquetFileWriter.AppendRowGroup();
var nameWriter = rowGroup.NextColumn().LogicalWriter<String>();
nameWriter.WriteBatch(new string[] { "London", "Derby" });
var geom0 = new Point(5.1, 51.1);
var geom1 = new Point(5.5, 51.1);
var points = new double?[2][];
points[0] = new double?[2] {geom0.X, geom0.Y};
points[1] = new double?[2] { geom1.X, geom1.Y };
var geometryWriter = rowGroup.NextColumn().LogicalWriter<Double?[]> ();
geometryWriter.WriteBatch(points);
parquetFileWriter.Close();
First attempt to write Apache Arrow geometries (see unit tests), file gets written but nothing is visualized in QGIS (probably because geometry column type):