Best practice for creating GeoParquet files: https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet/blob/main/format-specs/distributing-geoparquet.md#best-practices-for-distributing-geoparquet see the TL;DR:

• Use zstd for compression, and set the compression level to 15.

• Be sure to include the bbox covering, and use GeoParquet version 1.1.

• Spatially order the data within the file.

• Set the maximum row group size between 50,000 and 150,000 per row.

• If the data is larger than ~2 gigabytes consider spatially partitioning the files.

• Use STAC Metadata metadata to describe the data.

• https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/02/geoparquet-2.0-going-native/

• GeoParquet 2.0 vs Parquet: https://rednegra.net/blog/20250925-parquet-with-geometry-type-is-not-geoparquet/

• https://bsky.app/profile/developmentseed.org/post/3lygffozqv22y

• nested columns are possible!

• Arrow vs Parquet

• “spatial indexing”

• https://geoarrow.org/format.html

• https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/02/geoparquet-2.0-going-native/

• https://github.com/jorisvandenbossche/2025-cloudscaping-geoparquet-workshop?tab=readme-ov-file

• Best practice: https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet/blob/main/format-specs/distributing-geoparquet.md

• A podcast: https://mapscaping.com/podcast/geoparquet-for-beginners/