Jia and Dewey have written a draft post about the new Geospatial types added to parquet. I encourage anyone interested to provide comments / suggestions on the draft [2]
More details are on the ticket[1]. Thanks! Andrew [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/148#issuecomment-3776848375 [2]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JPK0F6Vn4sjXGO4AzrkywOjlj_ybDV_6v0zuaFIIjlk On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 7:32 AM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea of blog posts came up the other day too, so I filed some tickets > to hopefully track and organize the effort and help collaboration > > I think there are at least three proposed blogs in this thread, so I filed > three tickets: > > - Variant[1] > - Geospatial[2] > - Complex Types[3] > > Looking forward to seeing these get posted. Let me know how I can help > (e.g. figuring out how to actually post them on the site, for example). > > Andrew > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/147 > [2]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/148 > [3]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/149 > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM Aihua Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Agree. We started to write a little bit for variant and I can take >> variant blog. >> > >> > On Oct 2, 2025, at 5:07 PM, Julien Le Dem <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I was thinking that we should talk more about the new features in >> Parquet. >> > Specifically, write blog posts about Variant or Geo types. >> > How they came to be, what they enable, how they are integrated in the >> > ecosystem. >> > The Parquet blog is only the release announcements for now ( >> > https://parquet.apache.org/blog/) and we can make it an opportunity to >> > spotlight some of the recent additions to the project. >> > Contributors welcome. >> > Some sources of inspiration: >> > https://arrow.apache.org/blog/ >> > https://openlineage.io/blog >> > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/ >> > What do you think? >> >
