@mgckind @Michael-D-Johnson I created this issue to track Brandon's work on this task and to capture important information. Normally we would use our Jira service but Brandon does not have an account there and I doubt it's worth the effort to get him one.

While Brandon works on learning how to customize Observable notebooks to import and display our tile geometry files, I discovered one way we can deploy the notebook. Using this tutorial I deployed an observable notebook to our "desdev3" namespace

manninga@darkmatter$ cd ~/deployment_public/apps/desaccess/common/build/src/des-gateway
manninga@darkmatter$ npm install "@observablehq/runtime"
manninga@darkmatter$ npm install https://api.observablehq.com/@d3/world-map.tgz?v=3
manninga@darkmatter$ ~/deployment_public/scripts/deploy -a desaccess -n desdev3 -c dev -u cluster-admin

Globe

Realized I have been only sharing my progress with Andrew and not the rest of the team! Here is the link to the Globe I have constructed so for with d3 with dragging and zooming interaction. The tile data is also loaded and displayed on the map. The next step is to implement the process of entering a specific tile name and having that tile automatically centered and zoomed to its location.

And also making the tiles look more neat with a clear color instead of black :)