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Feature request: Flatgeobuf read/write support

See original GitHub issue

Expected behavior and actual behavior.

As of GDAL 3.1, there is read and write support for Flatgeobuf. It appears that there is no such support in Fiona.

Is adding a line to drvsupport.py all that would be needed, or would it be involved to add support here?

Operating system

Ubuntu 18.04

Fiona and GDAL version and provenance

'1.8.13.post1' from PyPI

GDAL 3.1.0 installed via Conda

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

sgilliescommented, Apr 1, 2021

Resolved.

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tomplexcommented, Jul 29, 2020

I was able to get reading to work fine just by following the instructions above:

import fiona
fiona.drvsupport.supported_drivers["FlatGeobuf"] = "rw"
src = fiona.open("file.fgb")

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