Today we are talking about The Greater Cleveland RTA, How they use Drupal, and how they built a Drupal team with guests Mike Cermak & Rithya Lath. We’ll also cover Geofield Directions as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/465
Topics
- What does the Greater Cleveland RTA do
- Is the RTA a state agency
- What kind of Digital Service do you provide
- How does the GCRTA use Drupal
- Whay was Drupal selected
- Let's talk about the team
- How long has the team existed and how many people
- What type of skill makeup doest hte team have
- Local development and deployment
- Point and click learning, how do you keep up to speed now
- Day to day responsibilities
- Drupal con and Starshot
Resources
Guests
Rithya Lath - ral1239
Mike Cermak - riderta.com MikeCermak
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to make it easy for visitors to your Drupal site to get directions to a location via Google Maps? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Feb 2021 by Christopher Martin (ccjjmartin), though recent releases are by Allan Chappell (generalredneck)
- Versions available: 1.0.1, compatible with Drupal ^8.8 ^9 || ^10 ^11
- Maintainership
- Minimally maintained, Maintenance fixes only
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation? Not even a README
- Number of open issues: 1 open issue, not a bug
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- The module provides a new field formatter, so you can install it and then update a view mode to use Geofield Directions. Now your content display will include a link to get directions
- You can figure the text of the link, whether the link should open in a new tab, the magnification of the destination map, and more
- The module also includes token support, so you can dynamically include things like the name of the location in the link text
- I think the only downside I can see is that because this is implemented as a formatter, you have to choose the directions link OR a map, where I could foresee sites wanting to show both