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Native drivers

Load the listed package to activate its native extension. Without that import, automatic selection falls back to ArchGDALDriver().

GeoDataFrames driver typePackage to loadRecognized extensionsNative readNative writeReference
CSVDriverCSV.csvyesyesCSV
FlatGeobufDriverFlatGeobuf.fgbyesfalls backFlatGeobuf
GeoArrowDriverGeoArrow.arrow, .featheryesyesGeoArrow
GeoJSONDriverGeoJSON.json, .geojsonyesyesGeoJSON
GeoParquetDriverGeoParquet.parquet, .pqyesyesGeoParquet
ShapefileDriverShapefile.shpyesyesShapefile

Native-driver keywords are delegated to the owning package. They can differ from each other and from ArchGDAL keywords.