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 * Greater Cleveland RTA

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:
    • Geofield Directions
  • 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:
    • 26 sites
  • 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

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