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DuckDB
Apache Arrow
Pandas
Polars
GeoPandas
Format specifications
- Open standard
- 3D coordinates supported
- Lossless (no quality loss)
- Stores feature attributes
- Output: 1 file
- GeoArrow .arrow (Apache Arrow extension). In-memory columnar geometry, zero-copy interop with pandas, R, Julia.
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