Kyle Barron

It's the distance to the closest point of the box. If the point is inside the box, it has a distance of 0; otherwise some point on the exterior of...

We can keep this open to add this explanation to the docs.

My initial reaction is that it's really hard to fix ZM handling in isolation because it needs some bigger architectural changes to geozero

With #9549 it _should_ work to pass `lonboard.viz(ibis_table)` or `lonboard.ScatterplotLayer(table=ibis_table)` directly. Let me know if it doesn't

Yeah that sounds great! I always struggle to find compelling datasets, so if you have one you like, I'm happy to use that one

At least for UUID, since Arrow has a [canonical extension type](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/CanonicalExtensions.html#uuid) for it, it seems like that would be a great way to maintain the type information.

At least for UUID, since Arrow has a [canonical extension type](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/CanonicalExtensions.html#uuid) for it, it seems like that would be a great way to maintain the type information.

Managing when to materialize an Arrow stream is indeed tricky. I'd say it's best to be a conscious decision by the end user, where they can choose among APIs that...

> Indeed, this change originally ran into test failures because supporting this implicitly added support for `con.create_table("new", record_batch_reader)` to multiple new backends. We _could_ fix this by explicitly erroring for...

If it's well-documented that `ibis.memtable` is a fully in-memory object (as the name suggests), then I think option 1 is appropriate. If a user passes an object into the `ibis.memtable`...