The first electronic handwriting device was the Telautograph, patented by Elisha Gray in 1888. Elisha Gray is best known as a contemporaneous inventor of the telephone to Alexander Graham Bell.The fir ...
An orthophoto, orthophotograph or orthoimage is an aerial photograph geometrically corrected ("orthorectified") such that the scale is uniform: the photo has the same lack of distortion as a map. Unli ...
Main article: Intellectual propertyThe intellectual property rights for any creative work initially rest with its creator. Web users who want to publish their work onto the World Wide Web, however, mu ...
Main article: History of the World Wide WebThe NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.In the May 1970 issue of Popular Science magazine, Arthur C. Clarke predicted that satellites would someday ...
The advent of web mapping can be regarded as a major new trend in cartography. Until recently cartography was restricted to a few companies, institutes and mapping agencies, requiring relatively expen ...
Geographical information systems (GIS), which is a large domain that provides a variety of capabilities designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical d ...
The development of open source GIS software has—in terms of software history—a long tradition with the appearance of a first system in 1978. Numerous systems are available which cover all sectors of ...
Main article: History of Microsoft WindowsSee also: List of Microsoft Windows versionsThe term Windows collectively describes any or all of several generations of Microsoft operating system products. ...
Further information: Comparison of DOS operating systems and Timeline of DOS operating systemsOrigins IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS) and its predecessor, 86-DOS, resembled Digital Researc ...
GRASS supports raster and vector data in two and three dimensions. The vector data model is topological, meaning that areas are defined by boundaries and centroids; boundaries cannot overlap within a ...
In the middle 1970s, coal-mining activities required Federal agencies to evaluate the impacts of strip mine development on wildlife and wildlife habitat. They were further tasked with evaluating and m ...
MapInfo was founded in 1986 by Laszlo Bardos, Andrew Dressel, John Haller, and Sean O’Sullivan. The four were students at nearby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who wanted to develop an inexpensive ...
Jack and Laura Dangermond founded Esri in 1969. Jack Dangermond is the current president.Pronunciation of company name According to the company, Esri is pronounced as a word, 'ez-ree'.Some distributor ...
Starting around the mid 1970s, as computer aided design systems began to provide more capability than just an ability to reproduce manual drafting with electronic drafting, the cost benefit for compan ...
Intergraph was founded in 1969 as MS Computing, Inc., by former IBM engineers who had been working with NASA and the U.S. Army in developing systems that would apply digital computing to real-time mis ...
