Use a native driver

Load a format's extension package to select its native driver automatically. This guide assumes GeoDataFrames is already installed.

Activate the GeoArrow driver

Install GeoArrow in the active environment once, then load it before reading or writing Arrow data:

using Pkg
Pkg.add("GeoArrow")

using GeoDataFrames
using GeoArrow

table = DataFrame(
    name = ["library"],
    geometry = GeoInterface.Point.([(4.8952, 52.3702)]),
)

read_back = mktempdir() do directory
    path = joinpath(directory, "observations.arrow")
    GeoDataFrames.write(path, table)
    GeoDataFrames.read(path)
end

read_back.name

1-element Arrow.List{String, Int32, Vector{UInt8}}:
 "library"

Importing GeoArrow activates GeoDataFrames' extension. .arrow files then dispatch to GeoArrow rather than the default ArchGDAL driver.

Select ArchGDAL explicitly

Use ArchGDALDriver() when a loaded native extension should not handle a file:

table = GeoDataFrames.read(
    GeoDataFrames.ArchGDALDriver(),
    "observations.arrow",
)
GeoDataFrames.write(
    GeoDataFrames.ArchGDALDriver(),
    "observations-copy.arrow",
    table,
)

Use only keywords accepted by the selected backend. GeoArrow passes additional read and write keywords to its corresponding read and write calls; ArchGDAL uses its own keyword interface. Consult the native-driver reference and ArchGDAL reference for supported keywords.