Rabu, 26 September 2012

History of GIS


History of GIS

At 35 thousand years ago, it was discovered that the line drawings of animals and is believed to be the animal migration routes. The Cro-Magnon hunter who has described the picture.
history of GIS
History of GIS

In 1700, modern survey techniques have been established. Like the earlier versions of thematic mapping.

Start of the 20th century shows the development of "litogradi photo" layer where the map is separated into layers. Year 1967 was the beginning of the development of GIS is applied in Ottawa, Ontario by the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Resources. Developed by Roger Tomlinson, known CGIS (Canadian GIS), is used to store, analyze and process the data collected for the Canada Land Inventory (CLI - Canadian Land Inventory)

CGIS is the first system in the world and the result of improved mapping application that has crippled the ability of stacking (overlay), counting, pendijitalan / scanning (digitizing / scanning), supporting the national coordinate system that extends over the continental United States. Pengembangya, a geographer named Roger Tomlinson later called the "father of GIS".

CGIS lasted until the 1970's and takes a long time for completion after the initial development, and can not compete mapping applications commercial premises issued several vendors such as Intergraph. The development of micro-computer hardware spur other vendors such as ESRI, Caris, MapInfo. At the end of the 20th century, the rapid growth in various systems to be consolidated and standardized platform less, and users began exporting GIS data display via the Internet, which requires a standard data format and transfer.

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