rooot viewer

GeoParquet viewer

View GeoParquet files (.parquet, .geoparquet) on a 3D map in your browser. Apache Parquet with WKB geometry — the modern format for analytical GIS. No account, no install, no upload until you decide to convert or hand off to the rooot.it route planner.

Open the viewer → or jump straight to a conversion:

About GeoParquet

GeoParquet is the OGC-blessed extension to Apache Parquet that adds geometry columns (WKB-encoded by default) and a `geo` schema-metadata block. It is the format of choice for analytical pipelines — Athena, BigQuery, DuckDB, Polars, and Spark all read it directly.

Typical producers: DuckDB, GeoPandas, Sedona, BigQuery, Athena.
Typical consumers: DuckDB, GeoPandas, Polars, pyarrow, Sedona.

How to view a GeoParquet file

  1. Open the viewer.
  2. Drag your GeoParquet file (.parquet, .geoparquet) onto the page, or click the + in the Places panel.
  3. The file renders on a 3D MapLibre globe. Use the right-hand panel to toggle background layers (borders, labels, roads, buildings, transportation, places, terrain).
  4. Click features for details, or use the bottom toolbar to convert to another format.

Convert GeoParquet to other formats

GeoParquet viewer FAQ

How do I view a GeoParquet file online?

Drop the .parquet on rooot viewer. The geometry column (WKB) is decoded with shapely and the rest of the columns become feature properties.

Does this support the GeoParquet 1.0 spec?

Yes — the reader honours the `geo` schema-metadata block to find the primary geometry column. The writer emits compliant 1.0.0 metadata.

Can I convert Shapefile or GeoJSON to GeoParquet?

Yes. Drop the source file, pick GeoParquet from the Convert dropdown. The output is snappy-compressed GeoParquet 1.0.

Why GeoParquet?

It is column-oriented, compressed, and natively understood by every modern analytical database. For datasets larger than a few hundred MB, it is dramatically faster than GeoJSON or Shapefile.

Is rooot viewer free?

Yes. No account required. There are no per-conversion or per-view charges.

Does rooot viewer upload my files?

Files are parsed server-side for rendering but are not persisted unless you click Convert or Open in roooute. Persisted files are deleted within 24 hours.

Privacy

Files dropped on the main viewer are parsed server-side for rendering but are not persisted. Persistence happens only when you click Convert or Open in roooute; persisted files are deleted within 24 hours. Direct conversions through the per-format converter pages do not persist anything at all.