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Spatial partitioning, sorting and shuffling

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
data

Research direction

Start with the dask-geopandas spatial partitioning guide, then review the linked xarray.IndexVariable PR and out-of-core index issue. Check the linked Xarray spatial-shuffling PR and determine how space-filling curve values and chunked geometry indexes should fit in xvec. Done means spatially partitioned geometry coordinates and GeometryIndex support the intended out-of-core sorting and shuffling.

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Description

When dealing with large sets of geometries it would be nice if we could partition (chunk) the geometry coordinate and the GeometryIndex based on spatial locality (thus requiring spatial sorting or shuffling), like explained for geo-dataframes in dask-geopandas' spatial partitioning user guide.

This would require a good amount of work both here and upstream, though:

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