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Is it possible to use Flatgeobuf in Python?

I would like to read from / write to flatgeobuffers from a Python GIS application. My understanding is that this technology can only be used so in JavaScript and TypeScript (of course the compilation stage is language-agnostic insofar as the official CLI does that just fine).

It there a known technique or workaround to read from / write to flatgeobuffers in Python?

Solution

  • It appears that Fiona and subsequently Geopandas can read and write FlatGeobuf. GDAL is the backend driver doing the work.