"CGIS [Canada GIS] was a home grown software. Bill Gates was in public
school when Environment Canada's programmers were busy developing
software and functionality that was decades ahead of its time. CGIS was
used to produce thousands of analyses and hundreds of government
reports, and as more CLI maps were created, the database grew and grew.
You see, CGIS was two things. It was electronic maps, but it was also
the computer programs that allowed users to input, manipulate, analyze,
and output those maps. For over two and a half decades, CGIS lead the
way in geographic information technology. But all good things must come
to an end, and so it was with CGIS. There were perhaps many reasons why
CGIS began to languish, and was eventually decommissioned. Changes in
technology were certainly one factor, shifting priorities in the
Department of the Environment were definitely another. Whatever the
reason, by the time I joined the Agriculture Canada in 1992 and began
looking for CLI [Canada Land Inventory] data, the CGIS system hadn't
been run for a number of years."
Thus begins the fantastic story of rebuilding the original Canadian GIS.
http://www.igs.net/~schut/cli.html
Renee
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