Ability to do read/write in feather/parquet

[e-lo]

As a user, I'd like to store data more efficiently than geojson

As a user, I'd like to read networks in less time that it takes to go get coffee

Potential Solutions

Binary data formats such as feather or parquet (compressed version of feather)

Advantage:

• faster
• more efficient (e.g. Bay Area links.json: 1.33 GB >>> links.parquet: 508 MB)

Reading speed

Parquet actually slowed read the read speed (!?!?):

?? Did I do something wrong?

[e-lo]

This was implemented in v1.0-alpha.1 release and will be closed by v1.0 PR

[e-lo]

Fixed in v1