GeoParquet & Contextily Tutorial

A tutorial using Python
GeoParquet
Python
MEDS
Geospatial
Author
Affiliation
Published

December 8, 2023

Apache Parquet, or just Parquet, is an open-source, column-oriented file format that makes it faster to retrieve data and uses less memory space for tabular data, than say csv files.

It is very popular for big data repositories.

The geospatial version of parquet for storing vector data is the GeoParquet.

This format comes from the necessity to have an efficient and standardized format to store big data efficiently. It was first introduced in December 2022.

This tutorial will be focused on GeoParquet

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{hamilton2023,
  author = {Hamilton, Flora},
  title = {GeoParquet \& {Contextily} {Tutorial}},
  date = {2023-12-08},
  url = {https://floraham.github.io/Projects/contextily-and-parquet},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Hamilton, Flora. 2023. “GeoParquet & Contextily Tutorial.” December 8, 2023. https://floraham.github.io/Projects/contextily-and-parquet.