State pages: Offshore areas

[coreycaitlin]

How do we want to handle offshore areas? Should they go on separate profile pages? Should we mention them on the profile pages for the nearby/affected states? @shawnbot: What's your sense of how we should handle this?

Whatever we decide, we need to write through the contextual content so this data makes sense to users.

[shawnbot]

My hope was that we could eventually use the state profile page templates to also display offshore area data, and that the national pages would link to both the states and offshore areas. We don't have any offshore area data ready for consumption in Jekyll yet (in the _data directory), but it should be easy to pull from the database tables that we've created, especially now that we've worked through so many issues for states and broken up a lot of the data-specific areas into separate includes. It should be relatively straightforward to build up an "offshore area profile" template from the state pieces and point them at different sources of data.

See also: #1458

[shawnbot]

Here's a more specific suggestion for how we do this, and is already underway in #1479:

1. In the new regional collections, both offshore regions ("Gulf of Mexico") and areas ("Central Gulf of Mexico") will have their own URLs. These could correspond roughly to states and counties, respectively, or we could treat the areas as states (like we do in the existing explore data pages).
2. We would build up site data for offshore ares from the database in the same way that we have state- and county-level, and add data tests (cc New data structure cleanup checklist #1369) as we go.
3. Either way, these pages would have most of the same sections as the states, with a few notable differences:
   • No production on all lands and waters
   • No economic impacts: GDP, Exports, or Jobs
   • If offshore areas are the state equivalents, we could show protraction areas (or OPDs, Official Protraction Diagrams) as sub-regions like we do counties on state pages, because our offshore revenue and production numbers go down to the protraction level. Otherwise, the offshore pages would have no need for detail maps.

[coreycaitlin]

Closing this because the pages are largely working and we have a bunch of more granular issues now 🎉