A PR[1] is up to add blog about the Geospatial types to the parquet website (in https://parquet.apache.org/blog/)
Any and all feedback is most welcome. Thanks Jia and Dewey for driving this. Andrew [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/pull/156 On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >>> >>
