Re: GDAL and GeoParquet in Debian

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:00:39AM +0100, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reading about Geoparquet format and getting enthousiast, I see that it is not (yet) available in GDAL in Debian yet.
>
> Is it because the gdal driver [0] page is telling: "The driver should be considered experimental as the GeoParquet specification is not finalized yet"?
>
> Because [1] tells me there is a stable specification?
> OR is there another reason (adding a dependency to Parquet maybe)?
>
> As said, I'm not into the details, but getting a little excited by reading this post [0] from Chris Holmes :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde

I would add duckdb to the stack of interesting new engines with spatial
extension. I see some aborruso articles and experiments which smells
quite interesting. 

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