Spatial Union Cache

Caching the results of expensive queries, like API calls or compute-heavy functions on DataFrames, can dramatically speed up the execution of a spatial program. In Python, adding the functools.lru_cache decorator to an existing function makes caching convenient by wrapping a function and hashing its arguments.

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Spatial union cache

The union spatial cache allows for dynamic programming, where a large areal query can be broken down into smaller subqueries, each of which can be cached. After subdividing the query, we can take a union of the results to return to the original query.

Example code is on its way.