GeoParquet Support

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GeoParquet Support

High-performance vector tile generation from cloud-native GeoParquet datasets.

GeoParquet combines columnar storage efficiency with geospatial capabilities, enabling Martin to serve tiles from massive datasets in modern data lakes. Leverages Apache Arrow for zero-copy processing and supports partitioned datasets in cloud storage.

Key features:

  • Direct cloud storage access (S3, GCS, Azure)
  • Columnar data processing with predicate pushdown
  • Memory-efficient streaming for petabyte-scale data

Ideal for Earth observation data, government geodata repositories, and analytics-driven geospatial workflows.

GitHub Issues: #1693

Specification: GeoParquet Format