Sean Gillies

ZipMemoryFile was developed to serve the use case of a single zipped shapefile and its sidecar files, and multiple layers weren't a consideration. I believe we can extend it. @snorfalorpagus...

@mostfamiliar first of all: I'm sorry to be late in replying. The Fiona project is currently blocked by big moves in some related projects (rasterio and shapely) and doesn't get...

@grwhumphries Fiona relies on the GDAL/OGR library for reading and writing formatted files and that project has its own simple metadata scheme and does not implement any specific metadata standard...

@Jamim the fiona API will let you access native data of features but not native data of the next level up, the feature collection.

@uvchik thank you for the report. Geometry type 16 is OGR's "wkbTIN" type, which has no GeoJSON representation and thus is outside the capabilities of Fiona versions 1.8 and lower....

@klinden defaultdict almost works, but Fiona compares schema and feature properties keys and that's where defaultdict fails. This is a reasonable feature request and related to others. In my mind,...

According to http://www.gdal.org/gdal_8h.html#aec318ffe797555656fe678558c576b23 `GDALValidateCreationOptions` will validate options, and there's a hint about a `GDAL_DMD_CREATIONOPTIONLIST` driver metadata item. Still, I think the immediate thing for me to do is to eliminate...

@rbuffat thanks for the analysis! I merged #942, will test it here, and will release a 1.8.15 later this morning (US Mountain time).

@snorfalorpagus I think `ImportError` would be good, as long as it's raised only at import.

@snorfalorpagus @jorisvandenbossche I think that you may be overlooking how deeply record-based vector formats are. Except for the ones backed by relational databases, there is no efficient `FROM layer SELECT...