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# 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](https://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](https://www.riderta.com)

## Guests
Rithya Lath - [ral1239](https://www.drupal.org/u/ral1239)
Mike Cermak - [riderta.com](https://www.riderta.com) [MikeCermak](https://www.drupal.org/u/MikeCermak)

## Hosts
Nic Laflin - [nLighteneddevelopment.com](https://www.nLighteneddevelopment.com) [nicxvan](https://www.drupal.org/u/nicxvan)
John Picozzi - [epam.com](https://www.epam.com) [johnpicozzi](https://www.drupal.org/u/johnpicozzi)

## MOTW
### Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - [mandclu.com](https://mandclu.com) [mandclu](https://www.drupal.org/u/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](https://www.drupal.org/project/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
