The Mappyist Hour - Geography of Goats
In this episode of The Mappiest Hour, Tee Barr and Silas Toms sit down with Kate Chapman, currently with the Wikimedia Foundation, to trace her unique journey through the geospatial world. Kate shares her unconventional origin story—starting with a skin allergy at a mosquito control job that led to mapping dead birds in ArcView—and discusses her impactful tenure as the first Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team during the response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The conversation dives deep into the "hybrid system" of open-source versus proprietary data, the challenges women face in the tech industry, and Kate's decision to prioritize a remote lifestyle on a farm over a traditional GIS career. Tune in for a discussion that spans from critical infrastructure to the "geography of goats," zombie radishes, and the cult of Wegmans.
