diff --git a/lonboard/traits/_map.py b/lonboard/traits/_map.py
index 95aacf26..6d8f83ad 100644
--- a/lonboard/traits/_map.py
+++ b/lonboard/traits/_map.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import re
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
@@ -92,4 +93,12 @@ def validate(self, obj: Map, value: Any) -> None | BaseViewState:
         # Otherwise dict input
         view = obj.view
         validator = view._view_state_type if view is not None else MapViewState  # noqa: SLF001
-        return validator(**value)  # type: ignore
+
+        # The frontend currently sends back data in camelCase
+        snake_case_kwargs = {_camel_to_snake(k): v for k, v in value.items()}
+        return validator(**snake_case_kwargs)  # type: ignore
+
+
+def _camel_to_snake(name: str) -> str:
+    s1 = re.sub("(.)([A-Z][a-z]+)", r"\1_\2", name)
+    return re.sub("([a-z0-9])([A-Z])", r"\1_\2", s1).lower()
diff --git a/src/index.tsx b/src/index.tsx
index e45a0fba..5fb3f9da 100644
--- a/src/index.tsx
+++ b/src/index.tsx
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import { useViewStateDebounced } from "./state";
 import Toolbar from "./toolbar.js";
 import { getTooltip } from "./tooltip/index.js";
 import { Message } from "./types.js";
-import { isDefined, isGlobeView } from "./util.js";
+import { isDefined, isGlobeView, sanitizeViewState } from "./util.js";
 import { MachineContext, MachineProvider } from "./xstate";
 import * as selectors from "./xstate/selectors";
 
@@ -194,14 +194,7 @@ function App() {
     onHover: onMapHoverHandler,
     ...(isDefined(useDevicePixels) && { useDevicePixels }),
     onViewStateChange: (event) => {
-      const { viewState } = event;
-
-      // This condition is necessary to confirm that the viewState is
-      // of type MapViewState.
-      if (viewState && "latitude" in viewState) {
-        // TODO: ensure all view state types get updated on the JS side
-        setViewState(viewState);
-      }
+      setViewState(sanitizeViewState(views, event.viewState));
     },
     parameters: parameters || {},
     views,
diff --git a/src/state.ts b/src/state.ts
index 47608163..29e4263d 100644
--- a/src/state.ts
+++ b/src/state.ts
@@ -3,24 +3,7 @@ import type { AnyModel } from "@anywidget/types";
 import debounce from "lodash.debounce";
 import * as React from "react";
 
-const debouncedModelSaveViewState = debounce((model: AnyModel) => {
-  // TODO: this and below is hard-coded to the view_state model property!
-  const viewState = model.get("view_state");
-
-  // transitionInterpolator is sometimes a key in the view state while panning
-  // This is a function object and so can't be serialized via JSON.
-  //
-  // In the future anywidget may support custom serializers for sending data
-  // back from JS to Python. Until then, we need to clean the object ourselves.
-  // Because this is in a debounce it shouldn't often mess with deck's internal
-  // transition state it expects, because hopefully the transition will have
-  // finished in the 300ms that the user has stopped panning.
-  if ("transitionInterpolator" in viewState) {
-    console.debug("Deleting transitionInterpolator!");
-    delete viewState.transitionInterpolator;
-    model.set("view_state", viewState);
-  }
-
+const debouncedModelSaveChanges = debounce((model: AnyModel) => {
   model.save_changes();
 }, 300);
 
@@ -41,7 +24,7 @@ export function useViewStateDebounced<T>(key: string): [T, (value: T) => void] {
       model.set(key, value);
       // Note: I think this has to be defined outside of this function so that
       // you're calling debounce on the same function object?
-      debouncedModelSaveViewState(model);
+      debouncedModelSaveChanges(model);
     },
   ];
 }
diff --git a/src/util.ts b/src/util.ts
index ec37c154..ecc2f21b 100644
--- a/src/util.ts
+++ b/src/util.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 /** Check for null and undefined */
 
-import { _GlobeView as GlobeView } from "@deck.gl/core";
+import {
+  _GlobeView as GlobeView,
+  GlobeViewState,
+  MapView,
+  MapViewState,
+} from "@deck.gl/core";
 
 import { MapRendererProps } from "./renderers";
 
@@ -17,3 +22,31 @@ export function isGlobeView(views: MapRendererProps["views"]) {
   const firstView = Array.isArray(views) ? views[0] : views;
   return firstView instanceof GlobeView;
 }
+
+export function isMapView(views: MapRendererProps["views"]) {
+  const firstView = Array.isArray(views) ? views[0] : views;
+  return firstView instanceof MapView;
+}
+
+export function sanitizeViewState(
+  views: MapRendererProps["views"],
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+  viewState: (MapViewState | GlobeViewState) & Record<string, any>,
+): MapViewState | GlobeViewState {
+  const sanitized: MapViewState | GlobeViewState = {
+    longitude: Number.isFinite(viewState.longitude) ? viewState.longitude : 0,
+    latitude: Number.isFinite(viewState.latitude) ? viewState.latitude : 0,
+    zoom: Number.isFinite(viewState.zoom) ? viewState.zoom : 0,
+    ...(Number.isFinite(viewState.minZoom)
+      ? {
+          minZoom: viewState.minZoom,
+        }
+      : 0),
+    ...(Number.isFinite(viewState.maxZoom)
+      ? {
+          maxZoom: viewState.maxZoom,
+        }
+      : 0),
+  };
+  return sanitized;
+}