Panel:


Charles Max Wood
Eric Berry
Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham


In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses geospatial programming with Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham. Daniel is a developer at Google and has been doing Ruby for about 14 years. Tee is co-founder and CTO of Neighborland, which is built on Ruby on Rails. Before that, he founded, managed and led technical projects for a small startup for about 8 years. They discuss what geospatial programming is, what RGeo Gem is, and other interesting aspects of geospatial programming.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Daniel and Tee intros
What is the landscape when it comes to geospatial programming?
What is geospatial programming?
Google Maps
Get ahold of a lot of data
Wide angle of data available
Large amount of application available
RGeo Gem
What does RGeo do?
CrimeReports.com
Draw shapes on a map to outline the cities or space
A lot goes into Geospatial programming
What drove you to create this project?
Why Ruby?
Created out of necessity
PostGIS
When did this project begin to gain traction?
Open sourced it so that other people could use it
When did Tee get involved?
Rails
And much, much more!


Links:


Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Neighborland
Google Maps
RGeo Gem
CrimeReports.com
PostGIS
@TeeParham
Tee’s GitHub
Daniel’s Blog
Daniel’s GitHub


Picks:

Charles


CodeSponsor


Eric


Polymail
CodeSponsor


Daniel


Project Euler
Bloom County


Tee


Observable
MapSchool.io
GeoJSON.io
The Memory Illusion by Julia Shaw
Retrospective Album

Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham.