Reading GeoParquet files in QGIS (MacOS installation)

[nmarchio]

It looks like the MacOS QGIS 3.26.3 currently ships with GDAL 3.3.2 which doesn't support GeoParquet files (Windows QGIS ships with GDAL 3.5.1).

I did some testing and was able to confirm this is the case. GeoParquet files load fine on Windows and in MacOS QGIS throws an invalid data source error.

Would it be possible to update the MacOS QGIS release to use GDAL 3.5.1?

Originally posted by @nmarchio in qgis/QGIS#48517 (comment)

[nicogodet]

Related to #153

[DelazJ]

Maybe this should be moved to the QGIS-Mac-Packager repo where the fix would be handled? @PeterPetrik , @3nids?

[cholmes]

Any word on this? It would be amazing to have this working.

[diego-gris]

Any updates? I was amazed by how fast parquet files render in QGIS for Windows. Looking forward to being able to use them on MacOS too!

[PeterPetrik]

@m-kuhn and @3nids now maintain the package and it looks like we are waiting for conda qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#270

[atsuik]

QGIS on Mac installed from conda-forge can read geoparquet.

This command installs the required packages

$ micromamba install -c conda-forge qgis libgdal-arrow-parquet -n qgis

and run QGIS

$ micromamba run -n qgis qgis

[do-me]

Hey folks, any updates here?
I just tested again on Mac Sonoma but it still fails. I've seen some life in qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#270 but no working solution for brew yet.

Note that @atsuik's commands are incomplete, you should create a virtual env first. Install micromamba, then:

micromamba create -n qgis
micromamba activate qgis
micromamba install -c conda-forge qgis libgdal-arrow-parquet
micromamba run qgis

It will throw a few errors (about missing fonts and other non-ciritical stuff) but runs. Loading geoparquet files works perfectly.