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GeoPandas 0.12.2 patch release is out. Changes the "naturalearth_lowres" data assigning Crimea to Ukraine contrary to naturalearthdata.com original data plus shapely 2.0 compatibility fixes.

🎉 Release day! 🎉 Shapely 2.0.0 has finally arrived! Shapely 2.0 is a major release, featuring a large refactor and fast, vectorized (element-wise) array operations. Along with many other new features and improvements! Full changelog: shapely.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rele…

This is a important step for GeoPandas as well! If you install the latest Shapely 2.0, you will already automatically get the performance improvements while using GeoPandas (you only need to ensure you have geopandas >= 0.12)

GeoParquet 1.0.0-beta.1 is released! It's been an awesome collaborative effort and we're keen to get one more round of feedback before 1.0.0. Check out cholmes.medium.com/geoparquet-1-0… and our new website geoparquet.org for more details. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Following the traces of Shapely (cf. its recent 2.0 release) there is now "Spherely". It is still nowhere near Shapely's maturity and capabilities, but working on this project is exciting. More to come soon, hopefully! github.com/benbovy/sphere…

Hi Friends - we are once again looking to grow our #opensource #python software peer review editor team at pyOpenSci. We are interested in folks with experience working with pandas / geopandas, and data frames but all are welcome to apply! If you… dlvr.it/ShhgT6

New, minor release of contextily, your Python purveyor of static web tiles for mapping. Thanks to @martinfleis you can now specify tile providers with plain text, like you would under `geopandas.explore` 🕸️🗺️🐍

Debugging a dask-geopandas performance issue, which turned out to be a data partitioning issue: tomaugspurger.github.io/posts/dask-geo…

Okay wow, using GeoPandas in Jupyter notebooks is SO COOL. You can load up a geojson and view it interactively in just two lines of code. Anyway, happy Friday y'all✌️

📣 📣 We're excited to announce our newest Sponsored Project - GeoPandas! Previously an Affiliated Project with NumFOCUS, they've now graduated to a sponsored project. A warm welcome to this open-source project which makes working with geospatial data in Python easier! 🙌

We are grateful to be part of the NumFOCUS family. Our new Sponsored status means that you can directly support the development and maintenance of GeoPandas also financially 💰. If you'd like to make a donation, head to numfocus.org/donate-for-geo… or reach out!

Small 0.13.1 bug fix release today: if you had problems using geopandas read_file(..) with a URL, that should normally be resolved again!