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•AutoCarto
1 – first of an important series of conferences that set the GIS research
agenda
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•CGIS –
Canada Geographic Information System; pioneering project by Tomlinson et al.
where Tomlinson made a feasibility study of a computer mapping system for the
Canada Land Inventory; the study established the functional requirements for
a GIS; resulting project was a public-private partnership between the federal
Dept of Agriculture, IBM and Spartan Air Services
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•CRT –
Cathode ray tube was studied by Doos & Eaton on its use for plotting maps
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•Design
with Nature– first to describe many GIS concepts, including map overlay
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•Digitizing
table – invented by Boyle and Bickmore
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•DIME –
Dual Independent Map Encoding – Geographic Database Files (DIME-GDF), data
structure and street-address database of 1970 US census
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•ESRI –
Environmental Systems Research Institute formed by Harvard Lab student Jack
Dangermond with wife Laura
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•Harvard
Lab – Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis; in 1966
it created SYMAP, the first raster GIS, under Fisher; in 1977 it organizes a
major conference on topological data structures and develops the vector
ODYSSEY GIS
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•Intergraph
Corp – formed by Saturn rockets guidance team members Jim Meadlock and
others; originally M&S Computing
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•Landsat
1 – first Earth remote sensing satellite launched; originally Earth Resources
Technology Satellite
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•Masters
in spatial data handling – offered by the Experimental Cartography Unit under Bickmore, Royal College of
Art in London
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•URISA
– Urban and Regional Information Systems Association founded by Dr. Horwood
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late 50s– study on use of
CRT for mapping