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Talk: Geospatial Ruby #2

Open milafrerichs opened 9 years ago

milafrerichs commented 9 years ago

Hey guys,

I will give a talk at the German equivalent to the FOSS4G NA (FOSSGIS) about Geospatial Ruby and would love to get your ideas what I should talk about. And when I finished my talk preparation to get your feedback on my slides etc. For now I plan on talking about three libraries: rgeo, terrafromer.rb and Simpler-Tiles Any suggestions what I definitely should include in the talk? I have about 20 minutes.

Any feedback is appreciated. And I hope we will get the discussion going sometime soon. Maybe next year :)

Greetings from Germany

mila

milafrerichs commented 9 years ago

Hey @geo-rubyists/owners,

would love your feedback on my talk about Geospatial Ruby although it is in German I think you will get the most of it. The important parts are the code samples. (Starting at 31 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCCe7PhpXQQ http://milafrerichs.de/geospatial-ruby

I'm thinking about proposing it to ruby conferences this year.

Thanks.

Greetings from Germany

scooterw commented 9 years ago

I like the content of the talk. It makes Ruby for Geo look very approachable. As a bonus for me, reading the slides really brought me back to my few years of High School instruction in German! I really agree with the discussion of simpler-tiles and terraformer-ruby and love the examples. RGeo bears mentioning if for no other reason than its popularity. I find it an interesting case, though, because I've discussed it with various Ruby folks who had to "do some Geo" in their Rails apps, and they found it to be fairly complicated. I tend to agree with them, but am yet to find a Ruby library as "comprehensive" as RGeo. I would love to see a wider discussion with the Ruby community at large about whether our Geo libraries are "Ruby enough" for the wider community to adopt and love on. Thanks for sharing this, and I hope you will submit to some Ruby conferences this year!

milafrerichs commented 9 years ago

Thanks @scooterw . I will try to integrate as many remarks as possible from you and the others. Can you think of other libraries I should integrate? I submitted the talk to RubyNation (DC, June) and will submit it to other conferences as well. Would you mind having a look at the proposal text?