CC-ing Matthew On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind < os...@westravanholthe.nl> wrote:
> Hi, > > From what I see on the PR you mentioned, is that this would mean (in Avro > terms) logical types for geometry & geography (both coordinates)? Do I > understand this correctly? > > Additional things, such as lines, polygons and expressions, fall outside > our scope of data representation. > > Both the geometry and geography types are be possible using a logical type > on a record with 4 double fields (x, y, z & m), where the first two should > not have a NaN value. > > Kind regards, > Oscar > > > On wed 23 apr 2025 22:30, Matthew Powers <matthewkevinpow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Avro community. Thank you for the wonderful work on this project. > > > > Iceberg recently added geometry/geography types > > <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10981> to support geospatial > > workflows and I was thinking Avro users could benefit from these types as > > well. > > > > I don't have the Java or Rust coding skills to implement this myself, > but I > > would be happy to help with the spec and cheerlead the feature to get > > users! Thank you for considering this proposal. > > >
