Google's Maps JavaScript API is a fundamental web technology that's used to build dynamic and interactive map features and web apps.

Matt Toon is a Solutions Engineering Manager for the Google Maps platform.

He joins the podcast with Josh Goldberg to talk about his background working with geospatial data,

the development of Google Maps, bringing 3D maps to the JavaScript API,

and much more. This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open-source developer.

Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ES Slint, the tooling

that enables ESS Slint and prettier to run on TypeScript code.

Josh is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a live code streamer on Twitch.

Find Josh on Blue Sky, Mastodon, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and dot com as Joshua K. Goldberg.

With me today is Matt Tune. Matt, welcome to Software Engineering Daily. How's it going?

Very well. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's our pleasure. Matt, you have had

quite the career. Could you please tell us how it got started? Oh, I think it was a long time ago. I've been

working in maps and location for quite a few years now. I think I've always had a love of maps and a love of, you know, where things are and how things relate together. So at some time in the past, I managed to convert that not only into a degree in what I was doing, but a way of taking that into business and finding, you know,

useful ways of integrating that into code. And as time has gone on, it seems to become more

and more popular, which has been very good for me. How did you first get into coding?

At university, again, if we look back where I came from,

I started working with maps and location and, you know, satellite images very early on with

technology. And some of the earliest stuff I ever did was like in C to process imagery from big tapes that you might

have had and reading data off that so you could display them on computers, PCs, Unix machines.

And in order to do that, you had to learn how to code. So, you know, I'm sort of like, you know,

it's a functional thing of how I've

learned. You've learned it on the job, mainly, rather than formal training to a certain extent.

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