GIS_TIMELINE
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Updated: 22 Sep 2017
GEOS 406
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Dr. John SnowVery simple maps prior
(not on computers)Canadian Land
Inventory startedOdyssey GIS
Developement StartedARC/INFO Developed
By ESRIPC ARC/INFO for DOSFirst GIS MeetingFirst ESRI
ConferenceGoogle Maps
launchedKeyhole, Inc Developed Keyhole EarthviewerConception of GIS dayFirst landsat satellitePublishing of the "Atlas of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland" by Bickmore and ShawTomlinson adopts a digital
method in analyzing maps.Publishing of the "Atlas of the British
Flora" by Perring and WaltersTomlinson estimates that there were
over 1000 different GIS systems in use
across the US.IBM introduces the mainframe 360/65 computer.New Haven Census Use StudyFirst International DIME ColloquiumRelational Software, IncTheory of RDBMS modelGoogle acquired Keyhole, Inc,Odyssey GISRoger Tomlinson
coined term GISEarthquake in HaitiCharles PicquetEstablishment of the Laboratory
for Computer Graphics (and Spatial
Analysis) by Howard Fisher at Harvard
UniversityTomlinson convinces the Canadian
government to invest in the creation
of the Canada Geographic Information
System (CGIS).Laboratory of Computer Graphics and
Spatial Analysis completes the ODYSSEY
GIS system.Environmental Systems Research
Institute (ESRI) founded by J.
Dangermond.ESRI foundedArcView launchedArcGIS Desktop launchedData MiningSputnik 1USA GPS fully operationalConception of
MariaDB EnterprisePostgreSQLOracle acquired MySQLFirst terabyte
database createdSAP mobile applicationsOracle Database
Mobile ServerPeriods
First Phase, Pioneering Age of GISSecond Phase of GISThird Phase, Commercial DominanceThe joint use of geographical
displays and spatial statistic data
becomes feasible.Fourth Phase, Wide-spread application
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