Designing mass-transit support for GNOME Maps

This isn't a story about being ignorant, because everyone starts that way, but about overcoming ignorance by doing appropriate research, which a lot of smart people think they don't have to do because they are competent in one area of expertise and don't recognize when they are outside their zone of knowledge. If you only discuss your software design with a group of people who think similarly they may end up erroneously validating your design by having the same misconceptions, it's by talking to different people that shined light on the gaps in knowledge the developer actually had on the subject and encouraged them to do the research that led to a vastly superior design.