‘Data for Decision’: GIS on Punchcards. “Data for Decision” is a 1967 National Film Board of Canada film that explains the work of the Canada Geographic Information System — one of the earliest GISes in history, if not the earliest — in analysing the huge volumes of data from the Canada Land Inventory (http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/cli/intro.html).
A dry documentary (today it would have been a PowerPoint presentation at a high-level bureaucratic meeting), but now it’s a fascinating look at GIS in the punchcard era. It’s been uploaded to YouTube in three parts: 1 - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFG6aQTwPk 2 - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3kFYsOHgDSo 3 - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ryWcq7Dv4jE I find this on The Map Room: http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2009/01/data_for_decisi.php marc _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
