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Episode 173: The Cartographer Who Quit
Liesl Vermeulen spent fourteen years making the most accurate maps in the world. Then one morning she handed in her badge and walked into the hills with a notebook and no plan. We talk about the difference between a map and a memory, the village that officially does not exist, and the strange grief of finishing a thing you were brilliant at.
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A map is a promise that the world will hold still. I quit the day I admitted I had spent fourteen years lying beautifully.


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Chapters
[x] 00:00 The morning she handed in her badge
[x] 06:40 Fourteen years inside the national survey
[x] 19:15 Why she stopped trusting satellites
[x] 31:50 The village that is not on any map
[x] 48:05 A map versus a memory
[x] 58:30 The grief of being finished
[x] 1:04:12 What she carries in the notebook now

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Liesl Vermeulen
Drakensberg, South Africa
Mapmaker turned walker. Fourteen years surveying, now none.
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