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geoparquet 1.0
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kylebarron committed Sep 22, 2023
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The two main things that GeoParquet defines on top of Parquet are how to encode geometries in the geometry column and how to include metadata like the geometries' [Coordinate Reference System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_reference_system) (CRS).

GeoParquet is a relatively young format, and the specification has not yet reached a 1.0 release (as of August 2023, it's at [1.0.0-rc.1](https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.1)). However, reading and writing GeoParquet has been [supported in GDAL since version 3.5](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/parquet.html), and thus can be used in programs like GeoPandas and QGIS.
In September 2023, GeoParquet published a [1.0 release](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.0.0/), and now any changes to the specification are expected to be backwards compatible.

Reading and writing GeoParquet has been [supported in GDAL since version 3.5](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/parquet.html), and thus can be used in programs like GeoPandas and QGIS.

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