GGR272H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Rieti, Geoid
15 Dec 2015
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Key people and ideas: first key influence: started with john snow, a medical doctor. Second influence: ian mcharg: wanted to find the optimal route for an expressway, looking at the landscape, taking variables into account and deciding what the best route was. Mapped out costs: social costs, enviro costs. Roger tomlinson: late 50/60s the federal gov"t was trying to get a handle on their resources. 1962 gov"t mapped the entire country (create 1500 maps). But there were limitations there"s only so much descriptive data you can put on a map: tomlinson said we needed to create a computer system that did the mapping for us. System to analyze, input data, organize data, measure data and finally report the results in tables, charts and maps: came up with canada information geographic system, created by tomlinson and his team. These individuals wrote scholarly articles on the system. Components of gis: linking a database to a map.
