19 71
The Canada Geographic Information (CGIS) became fully operational.  
19 72
The first Landsat satellite launched (originally known as ERTS-1).
  IBM's GFIS launched.
  General Information System for Planning (GISP) developed by the UK Department of the Environment.
19 73
Maryland Automatic Geographic Information (MAGI), one of the first state-wide GIS projects.  
The USGS began development of Geographical Information Retrieval and Analysis System (GIRAS) to management and analyse large land resources databases being created.  
19 74
  The first AUTOCARTO conference held in September 1974, in Reston, Virginia. (Although the AUTOCARTO series really started the year before as the International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography).
  Experimental Cartography Unit (ECU) established at the Royal College of Art in London.
19 76
Minnesota Land Management Information System (MLMIS), another significant state-wide GIS, began in 1976 as a research project at the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, University of Minnesota.  
19 77
  USGS developed the Digital Line Graph (DLG) spatial data format.
19 78

ERDAS founded.
19 79
  The ODYSSEY GIS developed at the Harvard Lab. The first modern vector GIS.