Tyler Young on Geo Mapping at Felt

Elixir Wizards

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”
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  **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