Incubation Application: pygeoapi

[tomkralidis]

Dear Incubation Committee,

Please find below the questionnaire for starting the incubation process for pygeoapi. In case of clarifications/details needed, please contact me (tomkralidis gmail com).

Questions

*1. Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.*

• Tom Kralidis, tomkralidis gmail com

*2. Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).*

The Project Steering Committee (PSC) is below

• Tom Kralidis, tomkralidis gmail com
• Francesco Bartoli xbartolone gmail com
• Just van den Broecke justb4 gmail com
• Paul van Genuchten paul vangenuchten net
• Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus jorge jesus gmail com
• Angelos Tzotsos tzotsos gmail com

*3. Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers*

• Tom Kralidis, tomkralidis gmail com OSGeo
• Francesco Bartoli xbartolone gmail com GeoBeyond
• Just van den Broecke justb4 gmail com Just Objects
• Paul van Genuchten paul vangenuchten net ISRIC
• Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus jorge jesus gmail com ISRIC
• Angelos Tzotsos tzotsos gmail com GeoComvos
• Richard Law New Zealand Landcare Research
• Gregory Petrochenkov USGS
• Sander Schaminee GeoCat

*4. Please describe your Project.*

pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards. The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organizations to deploy a RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. pygeoapi is open source and released under an MIT license.

*5. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?*

It will improve visibility, usage and provide better integration within open geospatial community and tools.

*6. Type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.):*

standalone server and embeddable library

*7. Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.*

pygeoapi leverages numerous open source projects:

upstream

• OWSLib (​https://geopython.github.com/OWSLib)
• pyproj (​https://pyproj4.github.io/pyproj/stable)
• Shapely (​https://shapely.readthedocs.io)
• SQLAlchemy (​https://sqlalchemy.org)
• GDAL (​https://gdal.org)
• Rasterio (​https://rasterio.readthedocs.io)
• Fiona (​https://fiona.readthedocs.io)
• pygeometa (​https://geopython.github.io/pygeometa)
• netCDF4 (​https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python)
• pandas (​https://pandas.pydata.org)
• xarray (​https://xarray.pydata.org)
• zarr (​https://zarr.readthedocs.io)

downstream

• msc-pygeoapi (​https://github.com/ECCC-MSC/msc-pygeoapi

*8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.*

The following companies provide support for the project:

• GeoCat
• Geobeyond
• Just Objects
• GeoComvos

*9. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?*

MIT (see ​https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/LICENSE.md)

*10. Is there already a beta or official release?*

Yes, 0.10.1 is the latest stable version (​https://pygeoapi.io/download)

*11. What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?*

Experimental / proof of concept, and initial implementation as part of the OGC API efforts.

*12. Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, etc.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek certification at some point?*

pygeoapi supports a number of OGC API standards. The current support can be found at (​https://docs.pygeoapi.io/en/stable/introduction.html#standards-support), as well as core encoding standards (GeoJSON, HTML) as well as protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, etc.)

pygeoapi is Compliant to OGC API - Features as well as an official OGC Reference Implementation.

*13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?

Yes, and the code committers have copyright. See ​https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/LICENSE.md

*14. How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the project at this time?*

5, plus GitHub contributions/pull requests

*15. How many people have commit access to the source code repository?*

9

*16. Approximately how many users are currently using this project?*

pygeoapi on the Python Package Index (PyPI) shows a current average of almost 400 downloads per month. More information can be found at ​https://pypistats.org/packages/pygeoapi

*17. What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?*

All

*18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?*

pygeoapi leverages the OSGeo infrastructure with the following components:

Mailing List: ​https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pygeoapi

Website, demo, VCS, wiki and issue tracker are powered by Git/GitHub (see ​https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi)

*19. Does the project include an automated build and test?*

Packaging, Automatic Builds:

• PyPI: ​https://pypi.org/project/pygeoapi
• Docker: ​https://hub.docker.com/r/geopython/pygeoapi
• Conda: ​https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pygeoapi
• UbuntuGIS: (stable) ​https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcepub/10758317/+listing-archive-extra (unstable) ​https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable/+sourcepub/10933910/+listing-archive-extra
• FreeBSD: ​https://www.freshports.org/graphics/py-pygeoapi

pygeoapi is also part of OSGeo-Live (​https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/pygeoapi_quickstart.html)

Tests, which are invoked on every GitHub commit using GitHub Actions (see ​https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/actions)

*20. What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)*

Python

*21. What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?*

English

*22. What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many users do you expect to download the project when it is released?*

A library source release is 110 kB (see ​https://pypi.org/project/pygeoapi/#files). A Python wheel is 176 kB (see ​https://pypi.org/project/pygeoapi/#files for more information).

[jive]

Thanks for the application pygeoapi team!

Did you have any contacts in the osgeo community who would be in position to mentor the project?

[tomkralidis]

@msmitherdc has graciously offered to mentor the project -- thank you Mike!

[cvvergara]

pygeoapi has been graduated

​https://www.loomio.com/p/XjpcFNvf/graduate-pygeoapi-as-an-osgeo-project