st_read_meta: read spatial metadata

In duckdbfs: High Performance Remote File System, Database and 'Geospatial' Access Using 'duckdb'

read spatial metadata

Description

At this time, reads a subset of spatial metadata. This is similar to what is reported by ogrinfo -json

Usage

st_read_meta(
  path,
  layer = 1L,
  tblname = tbl_name(path),
  conn = cached_connection(),
  ...
)

Arguments

path	URL or path to spatial data file
layer	layer number to read metadata for, defaults to first layer.
tblname	metadata will be stored as a view with this name, by default this is based on the name of the file.
conn	A connection to a database.
...	optional additional arguments passed to duckdb_s3_config(). Note these apply after those set by the URI notation and thus may be used to override or provide settings not supported in that format.

Value

A lazy dplyr::tbl object containing core spatial metadata such as projection information.

Examples

st_read_meta("https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb_spatial/raw/main/test/data/amsterdam_roads.fgb")

duckdbfs documentation built on April 11, 2025, 5:52 p.m.