Kaitlin Quinn · Portland, Oregon
I don’t follow maps,
I make them.
Legend
How I got here
Food and beverage, then geospatial. What the work did to me, and what I did back.
The work
Groundtruth 911 and an MPH. Public safety is public health.
How I operate
Companies publish values. I’m a person, and people should write theirs down too.
Work with me
An open door, not a pitch. What I’m interested in and how to start.
Thesis
Every broken system has the same wound at the center: the people who built it stopped being able to see the people living inside it.
Field notes
All entries-
01 Sep 2026
The work between the standards
Why I’m building a vendor-neutral NG9-1-1 GIS community and why I’m starting by giving away a tool
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31 Aug 2026
I’m opening beta testing for the NENA Schema Converter
I’m opening beta testing for the first public Groundtruth 911 release. It is called the NENA Schema Converter - a focused ArcGIS Pro utility…
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21 Aug 2026
La Luna en Mí: Humans Run on Two Biological Clocks. Only One of Them Got a Calendar
Half the population runs on an unmapped clock. Here's how to chart yours.
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12 Aug 2026
Why this exists
A resume tells you where someone was. It doesn't tell you what they did while they were there, or what it cost, or what they'd do differently.
Correspondence
Occasional entries,
no schedule promised.
NG9-1-1 data, public health, and whatever I’m building.