Lazy GeoParquet reading in SedonaDB, DuckDB, GeoPandas, and GDAL

I&rsquo;m an obvious fan of GeoParquet and SedonaDB and it should be no surprise that I worked (still working!) pretty hard making sure SedonaDB could take advantage of all GeoParquet had to offer. This post talks about one of those things: lazy reads (or if you&rsquo;re a databse nut, &ldquo;pruning&rdquo;). Basically, GeoParquet was designed to allow traditional GIS software to take advantage of…