Talking Drupal #465 - Greater Cleveland RTA

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