Jindra Lacko

Inspired by the recent #sdsl2024 workshop I have investigated sharing of spatial datasets between #rstats and #python as feather files

Some kinks remain to be ironed out, but so far the results look very promising - you essentially get both a sf object AND a geopandas dataframe for the price of one. Plus the compression is very efficient (file size is one half of a rds file, and one third of a geopackage)

Very interesting for developing multi-language data packages

https://www.jla-data.net/eng/2024-09-23-cross-language-object-serialization/