history of GIS

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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


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