title: Use geospatial data type as input for Apache Beam
body: <p>Is it possible to read from a geospatial data source (e.g. Shapefile, Geopackage) using Apache Beam's Python SDK?</p>
  
  <p>I found <a href="https://beam.apache.org/documentation/sdks/pydoc/2.6.0/apache_beam.io.filebasedsource.html?highlight=_avrosource" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a> page but don't know how to take it from there. </p>