Ryan Baumann

New solution guides to help you easily create 3D immersive experiences for storytelling and area exploration - mapsplatform.google.com/resources/blog…

@GMapsPlatform Real world reasoning is the next big frontier for AI Agents. Thank you Ken for showing us the way!

🫥 Text-only agents are a missed opportunity. With Grounding with Google Maps Platform, you can turn them into dynamic maps-based experiences. 🤠 Learn how to combine Grounding for accuracy, Widgets for visualization, and Function Calling for full control, turning a basic chatbot into a trusted guide and an immersive experience ➡️ goo.gle/4uSKVmx

@ammaar @GoogleAIStudio Loving this UX revamp--vibing in AI Studio and Gemini for free with #GoogleMaps Grounding is so much fun. Way to go @ammaar @alisa_fortin @OfficialLoganK and team 👏

Here it is. We're making it super easy for anyone to build AI powered apps in @GoogleAIStudio. 🚀 In the tutorial below, go from idea to live restaurant recommender app, with Gemini and Google Maps Grounding in under 60 seconds. Excited to see what you build! 👇

Introducing grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, bringing data about 250 million places and Gemini together to create all new experiences 🗺️! So powerful to connect things like maps + search together in a single experience : )

There are two wildly different pursuits you must execute to build great products: 1. Build what customers want 2. Bet on an unproven future We tend to over complicate or over-wield the former, creating complex mechanisms by which customer feedback is quantified, abstracted, frameworked-away. PMs find the simplest form distasteful (“ugh, why build for one prospect?”) and struggles to implement at scale (hence “no” culture.) Building what customers want is a tactical, commercial minded pursuit with narrower lanes of creativity. This is where speed matters. The best at this are relentlessly practical, with real customer empathy and a big dash of competitiveness. Then there are the big ol bets, which die of human causes: fear, bureaucracy, ego. These are the ideas that get killed in committee, or rot as a crappy MVP, or get called a distraction. It’s extremely hard to get good at big bets. The cheat code? Unreasonable people: Unreasonable people who simply will a future to be true. They say “this is how the world will look, see ya there!” They are OK being wrong (but usually aren’t.) They are, for lack of better word, zealots. These are your founders or your founders-at-heart. The worst thing you can do in a org that has a big thinker is pair them with a team of skeptics—the frameworks and “prove it” and the process. It’s like the first hires at a startup being begrudgingly assigned contractors. You’d never do it. They’d never win. If the first group (build what customers want!) needs execution velocity, the second group (bet on the future) needs vision velocity, where an insight about the market hits an ambitious set of creative thinkers and builds an imagination flywheel that unlocks a Big Idea™️. So think about which of these skills you need. Think about which profile you are. And then leaders: think about how to build human systems around them. You’ll never get great without both models. And your team is where the magic happens. Build thoughtfully! 🚀

Gemma 2 (9B) is now available in AI Studio, along side the larger (27B) model! 🤗 aistudio.google.com

🚫 📦 Tired of incorrect addresses causing delivery delays? Learn how to enhance your checkout experience with Google Maps Platform Address Validation → goo.gle/4aWsJx9 Say goodbye to input errors and hello to successful deliveries.

Pretty cool location intelligence use case for evaluating a 15-min city index: 15mincity.ai/?prompt=3&lat=…

Really exciting to see @geopandas 1.0 released! Among a bunch of new features I'm most excited about native GeoArrow interoperability! Remember to pass use_arrow=True in geopandas.read_file for best performance! github.com/geopandas/geop…

Was asked recently how I help orgs prioritize—not the frameworks or systems, but how I get buy in from collaborators. My answer? I do sooo much “pre socialization” Basically much of my time spent on incepting everyone around me on themes and levels of investment. “Do you agree on this direction?” And then check, check, and triple check. The biggest mistake I see is the big reveal. Suss out debates early, then have them openly. Invite inspection when change is easier. When “planning” comes all my peers, the team, and my boss should be thinking: oh yeah, I’ve heard this already and agree. I regularly use this basic formula: 📖 Story: did you hear this about that customer? 💡 Theme: this is why I think we need to double down on [this theme] 📄 Plan: so over [time period] I’m gonna ask the team to really sprint on [these projects] 📈 Outcome: I think we’ll be able to [do measurable thing] ❔ Ask: do you agree? <— don’t forget this This is not just an exercise in managing up. These convos should happen at all hands. They should happen in team meetings. They should happen in little hallway convos and slacks. Put the effort up front, have debates early, and create a team that can move fast against shared priorities. And then remember: people change their minds or forget. So do it again 😎

Attention, @googledevs! 🚀 Level up the maps in your Android apps with Jetpack Compose. In this #GoogleIO workshop, explore: 📌 How to customize and cluster markers in your maps 🔶 How to draw shapes on your map 💡 And so much more Dive in! → goo.gle/3JXxwTY

You can now access Google’s Photorealistic 3D Maps through the same Maps JavaScript API you already know and love. And the best part? You can begin with just one line of code. See how @tensorflow devs can get started. → goo.gle/44ILZwB #GoogleIO

People are curious (and sometimes cruel) about the fact that I don’t have a CS degree. The honest reason why? I didn’t see myself there. Literally. I saw ZERO people in my life or on those schools that looked or acted like me. I had no model. To be clear: I got in. I was accepted into some of the best CS programs in the country. And I looked around and everything screamed “not you.” And so despite - loving technology from the earliest age - teaching myself web programming in the elementary ages - forcing my all girls school to carry AP computer science AB for me and just 2 other seniors I said “thanks but no thanks” to those schools and got my beloved 3 year state school liberal arts degree with a psych minor and no debt that, tbh, I’m still pretty pleased with. But if I could go back then, I’d still tell 18 year old Claire, “you belong.” Because 20+ years later I still have my moments. Do I belong here? Is there anyone like me? Is it worth it? And despite not going to school, I couldn’t resist the siren song of building. So I: - sold those web dev skills in college - was the most annoying and curious PM on the planet - sat next to engineers and asked “wait, how?” until I was able to say “hold my beer” - kept reading and self teaching and trying The clip below was only about 10 seconds of a 30 minute interview, but watching it, I almost cried. Because in that brief pause I know I was reliving the experience of being young and bright and scared because I didn’t fit. I’m so blessed and happy and better off for the path I chose, but I wish I had chosen it for a different reason. I wish someone had said “you belong.” So to anyone out there wondering: You belong.

If you’re an @AndroidDev who wants the 4-1-1 on adding a Google Map to your Android app, look no further. 👀 This #GoogleIO workshop explores enabling the Maps Compose library, adding and customizing cluster markers, and so much more. Watch now.→ goo.gle/3JXxwTY

Pretty amazing history of the world timeslider map #position=2.6539/52.6/11.9/0.62&year=1941" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">oldmapsonline.org/en/history/bat…

Tomorrow! May 29 at 10 am PT, join our webinar and explore: 📌 How to use Photorealistic 3D Maps in JavaScript 🤖 How to use Gemini model capabilities for Places API ⚡️ The latest Google Maps Platform updates from Google I/O! Register ↓ goo.gle/4bBo58O

Did you know over 1 billion people face accessibility challenges daily? At #GoogleIO, we met up with Maayan Ziv of @AccessNowApp to celebrate #GAAD and discuss our technology's role in breaking down these barriers and enhancing accessibility. Here's to inclusivity for all. 🫶

Enrich your apps and websites with helpful, generative AI summaries of places and areas and contextual search results. 🔍 See what's possible with Gemini model capabilities for Places API in this #GoogleIO demo → goo.gle/demo-places-ge…

Today we are launching Data Science Agent, a Google Labs experiment. ◆ Helps with complex tasks like planning, and error correction. ◆ Helps with data science tasks like predictive modeling. ◆ Outputs an AI-generated Colab notebook based on your prompt. Try it at labs.google/code!

Build Photorealistic 3D map experiences with the Maps JavaScript API, starting with just a single line of code. Get started → goo.gle/3UVF5Rr #GoogleIO

Have you heard our exciting updates from #GoogleIO? 📌 Gemini model capabilities for Places API 🗺️ Photorealistic 3D Maps in Maps JavaScript API 🚀 Our open-source React component library Discover what's new with Google Maps Platform → goo.gle/3y9H9MD