Nerdy geographer, dad of 3, plane and train nut, working for Google Maps in London. 🚄✈️🛰️🌍
Lincoln, England
Joined June 2008
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Ed Boiling retweeted
Honoured to be speaking at the @GMapsPlatform Community Day today 🙌
12 years ago I was interning with @boilerwadding's "Maps for Work" team in London and to this day #Maps is one of my favorite products.
Excited for what Maps x Gemini can do in the hands of developers 📍🚀
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Presenting world-scale inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) in Google Maps. Learn how RHIP, a new IRL algorithm, along with advances in graph compression & parallelization led to relative improvement in the quality of suggested routes in Google Maps. → goo.gle/3EBAc75
ALT Google Maps improvements in route match rate relative to the existing baseline, when using the RHIP inverse reinforcement learning policy.
Ed Boiling retweeted
We've been shipping NeRFs to Google Maps for a few months now. As of this morning, you can read about how we do it: ai.googleblog.com/2023/06/re…
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Introducing the all-new Google Maps Platform Architecture Center!
This central resource will help you to quickly and more efficiently accelerate the integration of Google Maps Platform into your products or infrastructure.
Learn more → goo.gle/3CuVQZO
Ed Boiling retweeted
Haven't done of these in a while, but: here's every single job and profession in the lyrics of The Fall, listed by frequency of mention
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Check out all of the new and updated products we announced today at #GoogleIO! 😎
Updates include:
- Photorealistic 3D Tiles
- Aerial View
- Data-driven styling for datasets
- Expanded customization features and more!
Read here ↓ cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
Ed Boiling retweeted
** Pause ** 🚦
We have news for you. 🙂 📰
There's an easier way to communicate key information to your users in a more visually engaging and intuitive way.
Introducing: Data-driven styling
Read about it here 👇 goo.gle/3HQvRh5
Ed Boiling retweeted
Power unlocked! 🦸♀️⚡️
We've been excited all week to show you powerful use cases that WebGL-powered map features unlocks.
Explore new features & get started here 📲 goo.gle/3mz4ONG
#webgl #googlemaps #webdeveloper #appdeveloper #developers
Ed Boiling retweeted
We have all been waiting for this: Now it is possible to render maps in #3D using the Google Maps JavaScript API!
At Ubilabs we worked with the @GMapsPlatform team and created the first WebGL demos for the big launch during #GoogleIO2021.
developers.google.com/maps/d…
Ed Boiling retweeted
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. is bringing PAC-MAN™ to the real world in PAC-MAN GEO™ now available to everyone on iOS and Android. Learn more about the game built with the Google Maps Platform gaming solution → goo.gle/2ZDk5lj
Ed Boiling retweeted
Guys! I did a #scicomm thing. I helped @standupmaths / @AProblemSquared figure out whether the surface area of a country takes into account terrain.
Spoiler alert: it doesn't.
youtube.com/watch?v=PtKhbbcc…
Ed Boiling retweeted
Call it our summer glow-up. ✨
A new color-mapping algorithmic technique will help over 18 billion football fields of mountains, snow, and forests look more detailed on Maps. Learn more → goo.gle/3iRqEI9
Ed Boiling retweeted
Take control over your maps with five new map customization features that make map management, styling, and updating faster and easier than ever. Learn more → goo.gle/3fs5ajr
Ed Boiling retweeted
Retire your scrapers! now with the much requested csv option, some updated Community Mobility Reports
google.com/covid19/mobility/
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Some more reading on approaches to mobility analysis while maintaining privacy...
ai.googleblog.com/2019/11/ne…
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#Transport #opendata request.
Are you someone who
1. work in a Local Authority and is responsible for #NaPTAN
2. is an volunteer who adds data from NaPTAN into @openstreetmap
3. works for any mapping application/agency and uses NaPTAN?
RT for reach much appreciated.
Ed Boiling retweeted
Curious about how the deck.gl eng team launched support for Google Maps Platform? Check out their post on the vis.gl blog that includes a live demo of ScatterplotLayer and ArcLayer over Google Maps → medium.com/vis-gl/using-deck…
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Exactly 1 week left to RSVP for our GeoNight Meetup! 😱 Join us and our great line-up of speakers for a night on @GMapsPlatform @GoogleEarth @EarthOutreach #EarthEngine.
📅 June 19th, 7pm
📍 our new office space in #Bieberhaus
meetup.com/de-DE/GeoNight/ev…
Ed Boiling retweeted
To create #EarthTimelapse, we sifted through 15 petabytes of data, 15 million satellite images, and 10 quadrillion pixels. Learn all about it ai.googleblog.com/2019/06/an… #WorldEnvironmentDay
Ed Boiling retweeted
The meadows of Trafalgar Square! Amazing to see Shakespeare's London. The hidden youth of so many familiar landmarks too! Although I guess Westminster Abbey was *old* even then!
@boilerwadding
metro.co.uk/2019/06/06/incre…