Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000
<p>Your favorite Marks <a href="https://twitter.com/markmirch">Mirchandani</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mandel</a> are back hosting this week to touch base with <a href="https://twitter.com/wangela">Angela Yu</a> about recent updates in Google Maps. As Angela describes Google Maps at a high level, it is your window into the real world, with coverage of Earth’s land and oceans. Google works hard to keep that information updated with satellite pictures, street view Google vehicles, and even backpacks for hikers to record hard to reach areas.</p> <p>The Google Maps API makes it easy for developers to use Maps data in their own projects. It can be used for something as simple as showing location to something more complicated, for example showing the user specific things around them to help them make decisions. Game developers can create rich experiences by building real-world gaming situations with Maps and augmented reality. Using the Places API can display parks, government buildings, and other interesting places beyond streets. And the Routes API can expand the user experience by providing directions, tracking drivers in real time, etc. Maps and Google Cloud together work well with BigQuery to search huge amounts of data and visualize them on a map.</p> <p>In the future, Angela is particularly excited about how ridesharing apps will continue to use Maps and Routes to optimize their businesses. She also looks forward to more augmented reality projects beyond gaming, where data, directions, and more are overlaid on the physical world.</p> <h5 id="angela-yu">Angela Yu</h5> <p>Angela Yu is a developer advocate for Google Maps Platform. Throughout her career, she has geeked out on voice recognition, mobile app development, and IoT. You can find her trapped in escape rooms or on <a href="https://twitter.com/wangela">Twitter</a>.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google to acquire Looker <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/expanding-our-platform-for-business-intelligence-and-embedded-analytics"> blog</a></li> <li>New Translate API capabilities can help localization experts and global enterprises <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/new-translate-api-capabilities-can-help-localization-experts-and-global-enterprises"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Cloud networking in depth: Cloud CDN <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/google-cloud-networking-in-depth-cloud-cdn"> blog</a></li> <li>Save money by stopping and starting Compute Engine instances on schedule <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/save-money-by-stopping-and-starting-compute-engine-instances-on-schedule"> blog</a></li> <li>An update on Sunday’s service disruption <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/an-update-on-sundays-service-disruption"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Google Maps Platform <a href="https://goo.gle/mapsplatform">site</a> <a href="https://goo.gle/gmp-blog">blog</a> <a href="https://goo.gle/gmp-docs">docs</a></li> <li>Google Maps Places <a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/places/">site</a></li> <li>Google Maps Routes <a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/routes/">site</a></li> <li>Google Maps Treks <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/about/treks">site</a></li> <li>Visualizing data from Firebase on a Google Map <a href="https://www.hackster.io/PaulTR/bike-route-data-gatherer-12a831#toc-visualizing-data-14"> site</a></li> <li>Google Maps Platform Codelabs <a href="https://goo.gle/maps-labs">site</a></li> <li>BigQuery <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/">site</a></li> <li>BigQuery Public Datasets <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/">docs</a></li> <li>Deck.GL <a href="https://deck.gl/#/">site</a></li> <li>Google Maps SDK for Android Beta <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-sdk/v3-client-migration"> site</a></li> <li>Popular Antipodes on Google Maps <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1VxP6QegT4W3UGybiKXj3ZSq3vPE&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=-3.81666561775622e-14%2C-132.890625&spn=152.979774%2C351.5625&z=1&output=embed"> site</a></li> <li>The True Size of countries <a href="https://thetruesize.com/">site</a></li> <li>Google Maps on Github <a href="https://goo.gle/maps-libraries">site</a></li> <li>Google Maps Client Libraries <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/web-services/client-library">site</a></li> <li>StreetView Gallery <a href="https://www.google.com/streetview/gallery/">site</a></li> <li>Earth Engine <a href="https://earthengine.google.com/">site</a></li> <li>xkcd: Map Projections <a href="https://xkcd.com/977/">site</a></li> <li>Beautiful data visualizations using <a href="http://deck.gl/">deck.gl</a> on Google Maps <a href="https://goo.gle/deckgl-maps-announcement">demo</a> and <a href="https://goo.gle/deckgl-docs">docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p><a href="https://helm.sh/">What is helm, and how do I use it?</a></p> <ul> <li> <p>GCP Podcast Episode 50: Helm with Michelle Noorali and Matthew Butcher <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-50-helm-with-michelle-noorali-and-matthew-butcher/"> podcast</a></p> <ul> <li>Kubernetes Podcast <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com">podcast</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kubernetespod">twitter</a></li> <li>Kuberenetes <a href="https://twitter.com/kubernetesio">twitter</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Angela will be at the <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/">Chrome Dev Summit</a>.</p> <p>Mark Man will be at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/tokyo/">Tokyo Next</a>.</p> <p>Mark Mirch will be customer filming for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqJvwGd0PTzSx1j0cePX0INl"> Stack Chat</a> in NYC.</p> <h5 id="sound-effect-attribution">Sound Effect Attribution</h5> <ul> <li>“Striking a Match” by Nebulousflynn of <a href="https://freesound.org/">Freesound.org</a></li> <li>“Bad Beep” by RICHERIandTV of <a href="https://freesound.org/">Freesound.org</a></li> <li>“Correct” by Tristan_Lohengrin of <a href="https://freesound.org/">Freesound.org</a></li> <li>“Spaceship Atmosphere 02” by RICHERIandTV of <a href="https://freesound.org/">Freesound.org</a></li> <li>“At the jazz concert Crowd laugh.wav” by Ftom_woysky of <a href="https://freesound.org/">Freesound.org</a></li> </ul>
