history of GIS
Discuss briefly the history of GIS
between 1960 to 2000
- 1963: Computing comes of age (Establishment of the Urban and Regional Information System Association URISA and the first GIS Conference in Ottowa, Canada in 1963).
- 1964: Canada GIS-Roger Tomlinson “Father of GIS”
- 1964: Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis
- 1970s GIS software evolves rapidly (more GIS companies appeared e.g. Intergraph, ESRI, Governmental departments introduced GIS e.g. The US Bureau of the Census)
- 1980s GIS software advances significantly (more budget and human resources allocated for GIS, by the end of 1980s more than 4000 GIS/CAD software are introduced)
- Digital data becomes available (TIGER, World Data Bank, DIME)
- 1990s (integration of Raster and Vector based systems, Multi-media GIS, software become more user friendly)
- 2000: Web-based GIS