Mapping & Earth Observation · Recorded milestone
Geographic information systems
Recorded year1968
Roger Tomlinson's Canada Geographic Information System, begun in 1963, puts land maps on a computer for layered analysis.
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Led to
- Digital street map of a nationRecorded · 1990enables
- GPS precision farmingRecorded · 2000enables
- Satellite deforestation trackingRecorded · 2013enables
- AI disaster forecastingRecorded · 2025enables
- AI map analystForecast · ~2027enables
- AI city managersForecast · ~2032enables
- Digital twins of nationsForecast · ~2040enables
- Every tree monitoredForecast · ~2046enables
- Landslide prediction everywhereForecast · ~2052enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.