GeoPandas 0.8 includes support for reading parquet files with the appropriate metadata to interpret WKB as geometries. It's a nice experimental format that has all the usual benefits of parquet (good compression, sensible schemas, etc).
This adds a new driver for GeoParquet to intake_geopandas.
GeoPandas 0.8 includes support for reading parquet files with the appropriate metadata to interpret WKB as geometries. It's a nice experimental format that has all the usual benefits of parquet (good compression, sensible schemas, etc).
This adds a new driver for GeoParquet to
intake_geopandas.