Kyle Barron

Quick mention here that we're discussing with @manzt creating an initial Zarr loader as part of #1441 from what he already worked on as part of the [Viv](https://github.com/hms-dbmi/viv) project.

I was also just made aware (thanks @vincentsarago) that a GDAL driver for Zarr is progressing in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3896. We should keep tabs on that to make sure the ZarrLoader here...

I think part of doing the releases this way for deck.gl is also to tell github we have new releases. For some reason, prior to this deck.gl change the repo...

Just noting that as @nreese says, the current return format of Shapefiles includes shapefile-specific metadata here: https://github.com/visgl/loaders.gl/blob/39f6ee8f62b130107def832c44a3f9cf4a347b62/modules/shapefile/src/lib/parsers/parse-shapefile.ts#L136-L142

> In addition, in Node@16, there is another error: You may need to install the polyfills for working in Node: https://loaders.gl/docs/developer-guide/polyfills. Then at least `fetch` should be defined. That may...

Maybe try https://github.com/visgl/loaders.gl/tree/master/examples/experimental/terrain?

> Do we have good tests for zip-batch-iterators and they were not broken? I don't believe we currently have any tests specifically for `zipBatchIterators`: https://github.com/visgl/loaders.gl/search?q=zipBatchIterators, but this is WIP and...

> Adding a simple typescript type for the batch structure Yes that would make sense. Does loaders.gl have support yet for optionally writing the code in `.ts` files instead of...

Edit looks like the format discussion was moved to here: https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/pull/1191

New repository in the `geopandas` org as a place for discussion on formats: https://github.com/geopandas/geo-arrow-spec