In this blogpost I describe how to make use of multithreading in the latest version of PyGEOS (version 0.8). This improves the performance of PyGEOS computations with a factor of 4 on most systems. For information about PyGEOS, please read my previous blogpost, or consult the documentation.

Yesterday I went to FOSS4g.be in Brussels. Many interesting talks and people! A big thanks to the organizers.

In this blogpost I present my new Python package: PyGEOS. PyGEOS (documentation) is a library that exposes geospatial operations from GEOS into Python. Arrays of geometries can be operated on with almost zero Python interpreter overhead, leading to performance increases of up to 100 times compared to current shapely or geopandas usage.

This is my first blogpost at casper.github.io. May many follow!