terrio v0.4.0: Pure-Rust Geospatial I/O Library Ditches GDAL, CLI Under 15MB
giswqs · x · 2026-10-22
- terrio v0.4.0 is out: an open-source geospatial data I/O library written in pure Rust that reads, writes, converts and reprojects rasters, vectors and point clouds without GDAL or any C dependencies.
- The CLI binary is under 15 MB and installs in under 5 seconds. Usable from the command line, Python, JavaScript (WebAssembly) and Rust, with MCP support so AI agents can drive geospatial workflows; supports COG, Zarr, GeoParquet and COPC.
- In its first day of public release it merged 39 PRs, closed 24 issues and gained 108 GitHub stars.
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