Father of GIS
Author: Caitlin Dempsey
• 12/17/07 • Categorized as Spatial Analysis
Canada’s Globe and Mail profiles Roger Tomlinson and the birth of GIS in Canada. The article quotes Tomlinson, “The early days of GIS were very lonely. No-one knew what it meant. My work has certainly been missionary work of the hardest kind.” The article reviews Tomlinson’s early efforts collaborating with Lee Pratt, head of the Canada Land Inventory, in the early 1960s.
Read More: Putting Canada on the map – Globe and Mail
