Geospatial Consumption Zone

Key resources and contact points

• Product Owner: Christina Dischinger, ExxonMobil
• Project Lead: David Jacob, Esri
• Development Lead: Levi Remington, Esri
• Status: Graduated
• Homepage: Geospatial Consumption Zone Homepage
• Charter:
• Documentation: Documentation
• Backlog: See Issue boards
• Slack Channel: Slack channel
• Meeting Schedule: This project has a 2-week Sprint cadence.
  • Sprint Review is held every other Tuesday at 10 am US Central Time
  • New Sprint Planning occurs the following day (Wednesday) at 10 am US Central Time
  • Backlog Refinement occurs in the intervening Wednesday at 10 am US Central Time
  • Standup occurs every Monday at 10 am US Central Time

Background

The Geospatial Consumption Zone provides ready-to-use geospatial web services or "map layers" from OSDU datasets. Because the process of searching and discovering where in the world you have data is integral to the utility of the OSDU data platform, a searcheable and intuitive map-based interface makes the data much more accessible. With this objective, the OSDU Geomatics Workstream created the Geospatial Consumption Zone (GCZ) project.

Objectives

• Support development and maintenance of the Geospatial Consumption Zone
• Field enhancement requests and bug reports
• Implement iterative improvements in accordance with OSDU Data Platform release schedule

Deliverables

• Set of microservices which facilitate the instream, processing, and outstream of OSDU's spatial datasets
  • Once deployed and operational, the GCZ delivers ready-to-use geospatial web services representing the geographic location of OSDU datasets
• Documentation which provides guidance on the general installation, configuration, and usage of GCZ software

Status

• This project is graduated and maintaining active development
• Some pieces of the proposed architecture have yet to be implemented (OGC & Vector Tile output)
• Please visit the Issue Boards for latest status
• For any questions, please reach out to our Slack channel (#cap-geospatial_consumption_zone)

See the GCZ Status page for latest project status. See our GCZ Docs for a technical overview of GCZ components, API, configuration, deployment, and testing procedures.

Last Updated: January 30, 2025, by David Jacob, [Esri].

Support needed

Required skillsets

• Expertise in the business benefits and use cases of geospatial representations of OSDU data
• Familiarity with geospatial / GIS concepts
• While not required, expertise in Java, JavaScript, Python, Spring, Apache Ignite, or KoopJS is highly relevant to the work

What can new joiners get involved in?

• Contributing to ongoing development by writing code, documentation, and testing
• Reviewing the docs and providing feedback
• Using the GCZ and providing feedback

What are the gaps?

• Any OSDU datatype absent from our list of supported datatypes which does not otherwise comply with generically supported datatype patterns
• Unsupported output formats, such as OGC and Vector Tile
• Any other as-yet uncompleted backlog items

Useful links & Reference information

• GCZ Docs
• GCZ Issue Board
• GCZ Status Page
• GCZ Slack Channel
• Original Architectural Diagrams
• Admin UI Wiki

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License