Support for geographic data formats in Observable would be a major boost for the platform. I’ve designed a function based on gdal3.js that allows to import different types of geographic data. Why not offer native support in Observable? Perhaps gdal3.js is too big? I don’t know… In any case, why not hire a senior developer to work on these issues? That would be great!
See Import any geographic features / Nicolas Lambert | Observable
Hi @neocarto - thanks for the suggestion! We are continually adding new capabilities for visualizing different types of data including the geographic data you mentioned. I saw you also filed this in our feedback repo via Support for geographic data · Issue #579 · observablehq/feedback · GitHub. Keep the suggestions coming there and we can gauge interest appropriately in the community.
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