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| ESRI launched ARC/INFO GIS. |  |
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ETAK digital mapping company formed. |
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| The First International Spatial Data Handling Symposia held. | |
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Marble, Calkins & Peuquet "Basic Readings in Geographic Information Systems" published. | |
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GPS (Global
Positioning System) becomes operational.
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GRASS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System development begins in the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories. |
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| MapInfo founded. | |
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| Peter Burrough "Principles of Geographic Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment" published. | |
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| The first SPOT satellite launched. | |
 (A SPOT image of London.) |
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"Handling Geographic Information : the report of the Committee of Inquiry" (The Chorley Report). An important report that did much to foster the development of GIS in the United Kingdom. | |
The International Journal of Geographical Information Systems is published. |
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Idrisi Project started by Ron Eastman at Clark University. |
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SPANS GIS produced by Tydac was released. |
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| UK's Regional Research Laboratory (RRL) Initiative. | |
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| The National Centre for Geographic Information and Analysis NCGIA established in the USA. | |
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| The First GIS/LIS Conference held. | |
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| Smallworld founded. | |
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| The GIS-L Internet list-server started by Ezra Zubrow, State University of New York at Buffalo. | |
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| The first public release of the US Bureau of Census TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) digital data product. | |
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The Association of Geographic Information (AGI) formed in the UK. |
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Stan Aronoff. "Geographic Information Systems : a Management Perspective" published. | |
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Integraph launches MGE. | |
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