Hi, Apache Iceberg community is proposing to add geospatial support [1]. It would be good if Apache Parquet can support native geometry type to implement more efficient encoding, statistics and filtering. Therefore, I'd like to propose a format change to add a new geometry logical type: [2]. It is still in a very early stage and I'm working with Apache Iceberg community and GeoParquet community to polish the design. Hopefully this design will be a good starting point to support geospatial features from the file format level and be interoperable to more table formats and popular query engines in the future. Any feedback is welcomed!
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iVFbrRNEzZl8tDcZC81GFt01QJkLJsI9E2NBOt21IRI [2] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/240 Best, Gang
