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Support GeoParquet
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Description
### Feature request
Support the GeoParquet format
### Motivation
GeoParquet (https://geoparquet.org/) is a common format for sharing vectorial geospatial data on the cloud, along with "traditional" data columns.
It would be nice to be able to load this format with datasets, and more generally, in the Datasets Hub (see https://huggingface.co/datasets/joshuasundance/govgis_nov2023-slim-spatial/discussions/1).
### Your contribution
I would be happy to help work on a PR (but I don't think I can do one on my own).
Also, we have to define what we want to support:
- load all the columns, but get the "geospatial" column in text-only mode for now
- or, fully support the spatial features, maybe taking inspiration from (or depending upon) https://geopandas.org/en/stable/index.html (which itself depends on https://fiona.readthedocs.io/en/stable/, which requires a local install of https://gdal.org/)
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