GeoDataFrames as an AbstractDataFrame subtype?

[alex-s-gardner]

I'm wondering if making GeoDataFrames as a AbstractDataFrame subtype would be a good idea? I'm thinking that eventually adding a Makie plotting extension (as simple as parsing geometries and select attributes) would be a powerful addition to GeoDataFrames. This would make GeoDataFrames behave more like Rasters, helping to unify the JuliaGeo ecosystem. This issue is related to #113

[asinghvi17]

The main reason not to do that is because a lot of data processing functions specialize on ::DataFrame (even though they shouldn't).

But for plotting a table we should probably just be recommending AlgebraOfGraphics, which is usually what you want for table plotting anyway

[alex-s-gardner]

With AlgebraOfGraphics can one easily plot geographic polygons colored according to an attribute value?

[asinghvi17]

Yeah, you can even plot directly into a GeoAxis