GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Roger Tomlinson, Michael Frank Goodchild, Geographic Information Science
23 Jan 2019
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Today i am here to talk to you about gis. Now gis has two different meanings, traditionally it stood for. Now gis as a system isn"t new, it was invented in 1963 by roger. If we fast forward to 1993, canada plays a role again, as. Mcmaster alumnus michael goodchild, one of the heaviest hitters in gis coined the term geographic. Gi systems are easy enough to understand, people immediately point to software. Here we use arcgis created by a company called. The tagline they have come up with this year is the science of where . Well it is the essentially the processes and procedures that have been developed by geographers, earth scientists, ecologists, statisticians and several others. The key to these processes and procedures is that they all involve location, or a where component. If you think about the different disciplines in science, many of them have applications that involve location.
