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.