Pieter Roggemans

I think in an ideal world it would be possible to override the type of one field, and have the rest auto-detected. Often it will be one or few fields...

> > I think in an ideal world it would be possible to override the type of one field, and have the rest auto-detected. > > So you mean "autodetect...

For information, the st_segmentize spatialite function uses the rttopo library under the hood, which is +- a fork of the relevant code of postgis of some years ago. Spatialite also...

Ah, OK, indeed, apparently there are significant downsides as well... to the point it can apparently indeed be seen as a breaking change... Thanks for the reference.

I can make some time to have a look at this...

> Sorry, I was aware of what he was talking about, I kinda super imposed because I'm stuck currently with the slow performance of overlay identity (takes more than 3...

I implemented the speedup in https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/pull/3504 The 10x increase will be a relatively specific case, probably the other way around for this case will only be a 10% increase, but...

> Would like to come back to this topic to give feedback, the enhancement in 1.1.1 compared to 1.0.0 was huge in my case, an identity went down from 2...

General remark: might be purely personal, but I've only read/scanned the user manual once a few years ago when I started to use `geopandas`. When I want to find information...

> Check on the type after using the method above. It says Pandas Dataframe instead of GeoPandas Dataframe. @SteveFirsake I cannot reproduce your problem: for me it returns a GeoDataframe...