diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 5cc42077..87d491b3 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -6,22 +6,21 @@ desc = "A high level API for GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library"
 version = "0.3.1"
 
 [deps]
-DataStreams = "9a8bc11e-79be-5b39-94d7-1ccc349a1a85"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 GDAL = "add2ef01-049f-52c4-9ee2-e494f65e021a"
 GeoInterface = "cf35fbd7-0cd7-5166-be24-54bfbe79505f"
+Tables = "bd369af6-aec1-5ad0-b16a-f7cc5008161c"
 
 [compat]
-DataStreams = "0.4.2"
 GDAL = "1.0.2"
 GeoInterface = "0.4, 0.5"
+Tables = "1"
 julia = "1"
 
 [extras]
 BinaryProvider = "b99e7846-7c00-51b0-8f62-c81ae34c0232"
-Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 Statistics = "10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Dates", "Statistics", "Test", "BinaryProvider"]
+test = ["BinaryProvider", "Statistics", "Test"]
diff --git a/src/ArchGDAL.jl b/src/ArchGDAL.jl
index 8b4c0259..2047a16d 100644
--- a/src/ArchGDAL.jl
+++ b/src/ArchGDAL.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module ArchGDAL
 
     import GDAL, GeoInterface
-    import DataStreams: Data
+    using Tables: Tables
     import GeoInterface: coordinates, geotype
     using Dates
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ module ArchGDAL
     include("context.jl")
     include("base/iterators.jl")
     include("base/display.jl")
-    include("datastreams.jl")
+    include("tables.jl")
     include("geointerface.jl")
 
     mutable struct DriverManager
diff --git a/src/tables.jl b/src/tables.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..92678a8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tables.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+struct GeoTable{T <: NamedTuple} <:AbstractVector{T}
+        parsed_shapefile::T
+end
+
+function geotable(layer::Union{IFeatureLayer, FeatureLayer}, i::Int) 
+    featuredefn = layerdefn(layer)
+    ngeometries = ngeom(featuredefn)
+    nfield = ArchGDAL.nfield(featuredefn)
+    featuredefn = layerdefn(layer)
+    nfeat = nfeature(layer)
+
+    d = Dict{String, Vector}()
+
+    for field_no in 0:nfield-1
+        field = getfielddefn(featuredefn, field_no)
+        name = getname(field)
+        typ = _FIELDTYPE[gettype(field)]
+        d[name] = typ[]
+    end
+    
+    d["geometry"] = IGeometry[]
+    
+    for fid in 0:nfeat-1
+        getfeature(layer, fid) do feature
+            for (k, v) in pairs(d)
+                if k == "geometry"
+                    val = getgeom(feature, 0)
+                else
+                    val = getfield(feature, k)
+                end
+                push!(v, val)
+            end
+        end
+    end
+    keys_tup = ()
+    for _key in keys(d)
+        keys_tup = (keys_tup..., Symbol(_key))
+    end
+    vals_tup = Tuple(values(d))
+    
+    #Using the tables interface
+    RowTable = rowtable(NamedTuple{keys_tup}(vals_tup))
+    return GeoTable(reshape(RowTable, (1,length(RowTable))))
+end
+
+# "Struct representing a singe record in a shapefile"
+# struct Row{T}
+#      ######
+# end
+
+Tables.istable(::Type{<:GeoTable}) = true
+Tables.rowaccess(::Type{<:GeoTable}) = true
+Tables.rows(g::GeoTable) = g  
+
+# Base.IteratorSize(::Type{<:GeoTable}) = Base.HasLength()
+# Base.length(fc::GeoTable) = length(geotable(g))
+# Base.IteratorEltype(::Type{<:GeoTable}) = Base.HasEltype()
+
+
+# "Iterate over the rows of a Shapefile.Table, yielding a Shapefile.Row for each row"
+# Base.iterate(g::GeoTable, st=1) = st > length(g) ? nothing : (Row(st, g), st + 1
+
+
+
+
+# Tables.schema(g::geotable) = Tables.Schema()
+    
+
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 72fafc0a..a247c651 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ include("remotefiles.jl")
 @testset "ArchGDAL" begin
     cd(dirname(@__FILE__)) do
         isdir("tmp") || mkpath("tmp")
-        include("test_datastreams.jl")
+        include("test_tables.jl")
         include("test_gdal_tutorials.jl")
         include("test_geometry.jl")
         include("test_types.jl")
diff --git a/test/test_tables.jl b/test/test_tables.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0abe41f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_tables.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+using Test
+import ArchGDAL; const AG = ArchGDAL
+using Tables
+
+# @testset "DataStream Support" begin
+#     df = AG.read("data/point.geojson") do dataset
+#         DataStreams.Data.close!(DataStreams.Data.stream!(
+#             AG.Source(AG.getlayer(dataset,0)), DataStreams.Data.Table
+#         ))
+#     end
+#     @test df.FID == [2.0, 3.0, 0.0, 3.0]
+#     @test df.pointname == ["point-a", "point-b", "a", "b"]
+#     @test AG.toWKT.(df.geometry0) == [
+#         "POINT (100 0)",
+#         "POINT (100.2785 0.0893)",
+#         "POINT (100 0)",
+#         "POINT (100.2785 0.0893)"
+#     ]
+# end
+
+dataset = AG.read(joinpath(@__DIR__, "data/point.geojson"))
+layer = AG.getlayer(dataset, 0)
+
+nfeat = AG.nfeature(layer)
+nfield = AG.nfield(layer)
+featuredefn = AG.layerdefn(layer)
+ngeometries = AG.ngeom(featuredefn)
+
+Tables.istable(layer::AG.AbstractFeatureLayer) = true
+Tables.rowaccess(layer::AG.AbstractFeatureLayer) = true
+
+function Tables.schema(layer::AG.AbstractFeatureLayer)
+    # TODO include names and types of geometry columns
+    featuredefn = AG.layerdefn(layer)
+    fielddefns = (AG.getfielddefn(featuredefn, i) for i in 0:nfield-1)
+    names = Tuple(AG.getname(fielddefn) for fielddefn in fielddefns)
+    types = Tuple(AG._FIELDTYPE[AG.gettype(fielddefn)] for fielddefn in fielddefns)
+    Tables.Schema(names, types)
+end
+
+schema = Tables.schema(layer)
+
+function Tables.rows(layer::AG.AbstractFeatureLayer)
+    # TODO return an iterator rather than a vector of NamedTuples
+    schema = Tables.schema(layer)
+    T = NamedTuple{schema.names, Tuple{schema.types...}}
+    AG.resetreading!(layer)
+    nfeat = AG.nfeature(layer)
+    nfield = AG.nfield(layer)
+    rows = T[]
+    for _ in 1:nfeat
+        AG.nextfeature(layer) do feature
+            # AG.getgeom(feature, 0)  # TODO
+            push!(rows, T(AG.getfield(feature, j) for j in 0:nfield-1))
+        end
+    end
+    return rows
+end
+
+Tables.rows(layer)
+
+# TODO getcolumn support
+# using DataFrames
+# DataFrame(layer)