Imported from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (plugins/community/portaljs/skills/portaljs-add-geo/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill portaljs-add-geo. Copyright stays with the author (MIT).

PortalJS — Add Geo

Name: portaljs-add-geo
Author: jeremylongshore

Overview

Turn one geospatial upload into a dual-tier PortalJS dataset entirely on the user's machine — no server-side container compute, keeping the zero-backend bet end-to-end. From a single source the skill derives two serverless tiers plus the preserved original:

PMTiles (render tier) — a vector-tile archive <MapPreview> renders with MapLibre GL over HTTP range requests; any dataset size pans and zooms with no tile server.
GeoParquet (query tier) — a GeoParquet 1.1 file (covering bbox column, Hilbert-sorted) <GeoQuery> runs spatial SQL over in place via DuckDB-Wasm.
Original — the untouched upload in its native CRS, kept downloadable.

All three land on Cloudflare R2 (Git LFS → Giftless), and the skill appends one datasets.json entry whose resources[] match the shape the showcase auto-renders (the @reference/world-boundaries demo, PR #1647): pmtiles → <MapPreview>, geoparquet → <GeoQuery>, original → download. No page edits are needed. It automates the manual tippecanoe/duckdb recipes in the template README.

Prerequisites

A scaffolded portaljs-catalog portal whose template ships components/MapPreview.tsx and components/GeoQuery.tsx (PR #1647 or later).
Native CLIs on the user's machine: GDAL (ogr2ogr, ogrinfo), tippecanoe, and duckdb (with the spatial extension). macOS: brew install gdal tippecanoe duckdb; Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install gdal-bin duckdb + tippecanoe (apt or build from source); Windows: use WSL. The skill hard-stops with the install hint if any is missing.
Arc credentials for the Git-LFS → R2 push (the same token portaljs-deploy resolves), or an OSS self-hosted Giftless.

Instructions

The canonical, full step-by-step workflow is .claude/commands/portaljs-add-geo.md — the single source of truth. Read and follow it when executing. Summary:

Gather input — source (geo file path or URL), portal directory, namespace. Interview if missing; never dead-end.
Detect the native tools (ogr2ogr, tippecanoe, duckdb + spatial). Any missing → print the per-OS install and stop.
Validate the portal directory and confirm the geo showcase components exist.
Fetch (if URL) and detect the input format; reject raster and bare .shp.
Preserve the original, then normalize to EPSG:4326 GeoJSON with ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:4326.
Apply the size escape hatch (measure normalized-GeoJSON bytes): warn ≥ 500 MB; skip PMTiles and emit GeoParquet-only > 2 GB (documented, never silent).
Derive PMTiles with tippecanoe -zg --drop-densest-as-needed.
Derive GeoParquet with duckdb — covering bbox STRUCT + ST_Hilbert order; verify a range read.
Track all three files with Git LFS, mint an Arc JWT, push to R2, prune, and build the absolute data.portaljs.com URLs.
Append one dual-tier datasets.json entry (pmtiles + geoparquet + original resources).
Verify: npx tsc --noEmit and a Range: 206 check on the R2 URL.
Report the tiers, manifest entry, and showcase route.

Output

Created: data/<slug>.pmtiles, data/<slug>.parquet, data/<slug>.<origext> (all LFS-tracked → R2); data/<slug>.4326.geojson (intermediate; can be pruned).
Modified: datasets.json (one dual-tier entry appended); .gitattributes (LFS tracking).
Verified: npx tsc --noEmit passes; the R2 URLs answer HTTP 206 range reads.
Result: /@<namespace>/<slug> renders the PMTiles map and the GeoParquet spatial-query panel together, with no page edits.

Error Handling

Symptom	Cause	Fix
`MISSING_TOOLS`	`ogr2ogr`/`tippecanoe`/`duckdb` (or duckdb `spatial`) absent	Print the per-OS install line and stop; re-run after installing.
`UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT`	Raster `.tif`/`.tiff` (COG tier, later phase)	Use `portaljs-add-dataset` for tabular; await the COG phase.
`SHAPEFILE_NOT_ZIPPED`	Bare `.shp` with no siblings	Zip the whole `.shp/.dbf/.shx/.prj` set and pass the `.zip`.
`MULTI_LAYER`	GPKG/KML with more than one layer	List layers and ask which to ingest; pass the layer name.
`REPROJECTION_FAILED`	`ogr2ogr` error, often a missing `.prj`	Show stderr; re-run with `-s_srs EPSG:<code>`.
`EMPTY_OUTPUT`	Normalized GeoJSON has 0 features	Check the geometry column / CRS of the source.
`TILING_FAILED` / `GEOPARQUET_FAILED`	tippecanoe or duckdb non-zero	Show stderr; for very large inputs see the size escape hatch.
`LFS_PUSH_FAILED`	Missing/expired Arc token or unset `lfs.url`	Re-mint the JWT (see `portaljs-deploy`); confirm `git config lfs.url`.

Examples

Example 1 — Ingest a GeoJSON into both tiers

/portaljs-add-geo source=./data/rivers.geojson name="World Rivers" namespace=reference

Example 2 — Zipped Shapefile from a URL

/portaljs-add-geo source=https://example.com/admin-boundaries.zip slug=admin-boundaries

Example 3 — GeoPackage with an explicit layer and namespace

/portaljs-add-geo source=./data/census.gpkg slug=census-tracts namespace=statistics

Resources

Full workflow: .claude/commands/portaljs-add-geo.md
Flags, thresholds, and the dual-tier manifest shape: references/reference.md
Related skills: portaljs-add-dataset, portaljs-add-map, portaljs-add-resource, portaljs-deploy
tippecanoe: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe · DuckDB spatial: https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/spatial

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