Blazing an alternate trail With Yap's lifelong infatuation with maps, it would seem that geographical research would be a natural course for him. However, as a person of broad interests, he showed exceptional performance in the natural sciences, and his move toward anthropogeography and becoming a cartographer was happenstance to a degree.
以葉高華從小對地圖的癡迷，走上地理學研究似乎是理所當然；然而興趣廣泛的他，過去在自然科學領域的表現相當突出，如今走向人文地理、成為地圖達人，可說是無心插柳。