This is so dumb, Melinda Haughey thought as she scrolled through the posts in the Facebook group.
In the run up to Halloween in 2020, parents were plotting socially distanced trick-or-treating routes for children by building candy chutes—smart!—and sharing their various locations around Seattle at random in text—not so smart. Even Excel wizards couldn’t keep up with such an ad hoc array of locations.
But unlike the many other social media crises presented during the political and public health winter of 2020, Haughey knew there was an easy fix. The Human Centered Design and Engineering PhD candidate at the University of Washington had worked on geospatial tools during her time in the
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