Tyler Young on Geo Mapping at Felt

Today on Elixir Wizards we are joined by Tyler Young to explore the particulars of Geo Mapping, the process of turning data into maps. Tyler is a Senior Software Developer at Felt, the world’s first collaborative mapping tool built for anyone to make a beautiful map in minutes. Tune in today to learn more about Geo Mapping from today’s special guest, Tyler Young! Key Points From This Episode: A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Tyler Young We discover Tyler’s background and how he started working in Elixir, as well as how he got into the map business because of his love for Elixir We learn about GIS and its history as a system/standard/protocol, and how someone can study GIS Find out how mapping is helpful in more ways than just for directions, including climate changes, vacation planning, and more Tyler breaks down the common technologies and toolkits for programming with maps The specific tools that Felt is using to ingest map data and build the interactive maps What common problems arise when developing with maps Tyler teaches the Elixir Wizards about his tried and true way of decision making with “The McDonald’s option” _ **Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Tyler Young on Twitter — https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung Tyler Young on GitHub — https://github.com/s3cur3 Tyler Young on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-young-dev/ Felt — https://felt.com/about SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic

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Elixir Wizards is an interview-style podcast for anyone interested in functional programming and the Elixir Programming Language. Hosted by SmartLogic engineers and Elixirists Owen Bickford, Dan Ivovich, and Sundi Myint, this show features in-depth discussions with some of the brightest minds in the industry, discussing training and documentation in Phoenix LiveView, the evolution of programming languages, Erlang VM, and more. In the current season, we're branching out from Elixir to compare notes with thought leaders and software engineers from programming languages like JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Go, Scala, Java, and more. Each episode will take a deep dive into a topic from Machine Learning and AI, to ECS and game development, to education and community. Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smartlogic.io/phoenix-and-elixir?utm_source=podcast)