Mar 17, 2026 · 3 min
OxiGDAL 0.1.3 Released — Pure Rust GDAL Replacement for Cloud-Native Geospatial Workflows
Production-grade pure Rust geospatial data abstraction library. 11 format drivers (GeoTIFF/COG, GeoParquet, Zarr, NetCDF, etc.), 211+ EPSG definitions, cloud-native async I/O (S3/GCS/Azure), GPU acceleration (wgpu), WASM + Python bindings. ~480k SLoC, 69 crates, 7,486 passing tests. 10× faster than GeoPandas, <50 MB Docker, no C deps. The sovereign geospatial layer for SciRS2 and the entire COOLJAPAN ecosystem.
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