Prayitno - has shared notes from Geoparquet & friends (arrow, iceberg, etc) meet up, Jan 27 . The meeting focused on updates and challenges related to GeoParquet and related technologies. Key points included the status of the iceberg geometry type PR, which is pending approval from Run Blue, and the importance of maintaining CRS (Coordinate Reference System) as a string. Mike, the new CTO at Kato, shared his recent work on GeoParquet tools for DuckDB, including spatial ordering checks and admin-style boundary partitioning. Jia discussed the complexities of loading a large hydrography dataset into BigQuery and the need for proper partitioning. The conversation also touched on the potential for standardizing raster data in GeoParquet and the challenges of implementing foreign key relationships in data lake systems.
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