RR 356: Geospatial Programming in Ruby with Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham

Panel: Charles Max WoodEric Berry Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee ParhamIn 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 introsWhat is the landscape when it comes to geospatial programming?What is geospatial programming?Google MapsGet ahold of a lot of dataWide angle of data availableLarge amount of application availableRGeo GemWhat does RGeo do?CrimeReports.comDraw shapes on a map to outline the cities or spaceA lot goes into Geospatial programmingWhat drove you to create this project?Why Ruby?Created out of necessityPostGISWhen did this project begin to gain traction?Open sourced it so that other people could use itWhen did Tee get involved?RailsAnd much, much more!Links:RubyRuby on RailsNeighborlandGoogle MapsRGeo GemCrimeReports.comPostGIS@TeeParhamTee’s GitHubDaniel’s BlogDaniel’s GitHubPicks:CharlesCodeSponsorEricPolymailCodeSponsorDanielProject EulerBloom...