History
GIS
An Introduction to the Use of Electronic Computers in the Storage, Compilation and Assessment of Natural and Economic Data for the Evaluation of Marginal Lands, 1962, by Roger Tomlinson [PDF]
“This is the paper that started the work on GIS in the Government of Canada.” — Roger Tomlinson
Feasibility Report of Computer Mapping System, Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Administration, Department of Agriculture, Government of Canada, August 1963, by Roger Tomlinson [PDF]
An Introduction to the Geo-Information System of the Canada Land Inventory, 1967, by Roger Tomlinson [PDF]
Video: Roger Tomlinson’s “Data for Decision”, 1967
A Geographic Information System for Regional Planning, August 1968 [PDF]
“I believe this is the first published use of the new term ‘Geographic Information System’.” –Roger Tomlinson
Video: The Invention of GIS – Harvard University Gazette
Book: Charting the Unknown: How Computer Mapping at Harvard Became GIS
Videos: GIS pioneers talk about the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis
- Eric Teicholz
- Allan Schmidt
- Tom Poiker
- Jack Dangermond
- Nicholas Chrisman
- Bruce Rowland
- R. Denis White
- Scott Morehouse
- Duane Niemeyer
- Hugh Keegan
Video: Ian McHarg on the Charlie Rose Show in 1997
Video: Ian McHarg at the ESRI User Conference in 1997
Video: Roger Tomlinson at DMTI Spatial in 2007
Video: Dr Roger Tomlinson: Data for Decision, Then and Now (2010)
Back from the Brink: The Story of the Remarkable Resurrection of the Canada Land Inventory Data
LUMIS: A Land Use Management Information System for urban planning (1975)
Montana GIS News
Montana GIS user directory (1989)
Esri
1971 Australian Newspaper Article about ESRI
1972 Australian Newspaper Article about ESRI
Early 1970s Redlands Newspaper Article about ESRI
Maryland Automatic Geographic Information System Technical Report (1974)
Original ESRI Brochure from the Late 1970s
The Birth of ArcNews: Esri’s First Newsletter, from 1979
Original ARC/INFO Brochure, c. 1982
ESRI Newsletter, September 1984
“ARC/News”, Winter/Spring 1987
Original PC ARC/INFO Brochure c.1989
ARC/INFO Video from 1990
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