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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