Talking Drupal #465 - Greater Cleveland RTA

September 02, 2024

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.

Listen:

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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

Module of the Week

Geofield Directions
  • 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:
    • 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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