[Sdi-northamerica] GIS historical serendipity

[Kate Lance]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071217.wgtGIS1214/EmailBNStory/Technology/home
Father of digitized mapping (Roger Tomlinson) recounts how a stroke of luck (a chance meeting on an airplane in 1961) led him to develop the world's first geographic information system...  (see article for more)


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