The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of forming a new GeoParquet Standards Working Group (SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by 15 February, 2023. The OGC GeoParquet SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format to an OGC Encoding Standard for cloud-native vector data. GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet, described by Apache as "an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk." For an introduction to the GeoParquet format, see this blog post. GeoParquet started 3 years ago as a community effort by different Open Source Projects and organizations that have committed to its implementation and support.
