From query to map: Exploring GeoParquet Overture Maps with Ibis, DuckDB, and Fused
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Sr. Software Engineer - Ibis Project Committer
Naty is a Senior Software Engineer and a contributor to Ibis, the portable Python dataframe library. One of her main contributions was enabling the DuckDB spatial extension for Ibis in 2023.
In this blog post, she shows us how to leverage the spatial extension in DuckDB with Ibis to query Overture data. Ibis works by compiling Python expressions into SQL, you write Python dataframe-like code, and Ibis takes care of the SQL. Thanks to Ibis integration with Pandas and GeoPandas, you only need to do to_pandas() to get your expression as a GeoDataFrame.