geoparquet VS Fiona

Compare geoparquet vs Fiona and see what are their differences.

geoparquet

Specification for storing geospatial vector data (point, line, polygon) in Parquet (by opengeospatial)

Fiona

Fiona reads and writes geographic data files (by Toblerity)
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geoparquet Fiona
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723 1,128
4.1% 1.1%
5.5 8.5
5 days ago 8 days ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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geoparquet

Posts with mentions or reviews of geoparquet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.

Fiona

Posts with mentions or reviews of Fiona. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
  • Friends don't let friends export to CSV
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    Your issue is that you're using the default (old) binding to GDAL, based on Fiona [0].

    You need to use pyogrio [1], its vectorized counterpart, instead. Make sure you use `engine="pyogrio"` when calling `to_file` [2]. Fiona does a loop in Python, while pyogrio is exclusively compiled. So pyogrio is usually about 10-15x faster than fiona. Soon, in pyogrio version 0.8, it will be another ~2-4x faster than pyogrio is now [3].

    [0]: https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona

    [1]: https://github.com/geopandas/pyogrio

    [2]: https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/reference/api/geopandas...

    [3]: https://github.com/geopandas/pyogrio/pull/346

  • GIS Developer career path
    6 projects | /r/gis | 12 Dec 2022
    As has been said the definition of a GIS dev is far from written in stone, but to chime in from a personal standpoint: most of what I do is data wrangling/analysis with shapely/geopandas for vectors (or pygeos / fiona for performance when data volumes get large, but seeing as Shapely 2.0 just got released one can likely skip this part) + rasterio for rasters as well as parallelising these tasks for performance if needed (ray is great for that) and then performing machine learning learning against the data (mostly with sklearn and torch).
  • Read xml with CurvePolygon with Geopandas / Fiona (Python)
    1 project | /r/gis | 10 Jun 2022
    TypeError 10 refers to (https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona/blob/master/fiona/_geometry.pyx):

What are some alternatives?

When comparing geoparquet and Fiona you can also consider the following projects:

mbtiles-spec - specification documents for the MBTiles tileset format

gis-programming-roadmap - One stop shop for all your GIS Programming needs

odbc2parquet - A command line tool to query an ODBC data source and write the result into a parquet file.

rasterio - Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets

geemap - A Python package for interactive geospatial analysis and visualization with Google Earth Engine.

gdal - GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.

flatgeobuf - A performant binary encoding for geographic data based on flatbuffers

geoserver-rest - Python library for management for geospatial data in GeoServer.

postgres_vectorization_test - Vectorized executor to speed up PostgreSQL

Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

BlenderGIS - Blender addons to make the bridge between Blender and geographic data

parquet_fdw - Parquet foreign data wrapper for PostgreSQL