Dear Geo-Geeks, for 2015 GIS Day we aim to do something truly Geoawesome and we would like to ask you to do it with us.
We would like to create “A Brief History Of Maps” where we will mark on a timeline of all important dates and milestones that happened in cartography, GIS, and location-based technologies from the beginning of time until today.
Please help us and add*in comments below the post milestones which are missing. We will add them to the timeline ASAP!
Let’s celebrate 2015 GIS Day together.
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500 BC
The first known map of the World –*Babylon
1512
Birth of Gerard Merkator
1945
Birth of Jack Dangermond – Founder of Esri
mid 1960s
Initial development of Geographic Information Systems in Canada
1969
Founding of Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) in Redlands, California
1978
Launch of The Global Positioning System (GPS)*for military use
1981
The initial launch of ArcGIS platform at that time called*ArcInfo.
1985
The launch of Etak – the first Car Navigation System
1986
The first release of MapInfo Professional, at that time named as the Mapping Display and Analysis System (MIDAS)
1996
The first web mapping service has been launch by MapQuest:
2000
Civilian GPS accuracy got much better accuracy
2001
The first commercial LBS service in*Japan*was launched by DoCoMo, based on triangulation*for pre-GPS*handsets
2001
Lauch of EarthViewer 3D – the first virtual globe created by*In-Q-Tel (CIA funded company) and*acquired by Google in 2004. Then rebranded to Google
2002
Yahoo! Maps have been launch in March 2002.
2002
Go2*and*AT&T Mobility*launched the first (US) mobile LBS local search application that used Automatic Location Identification (ALI) technologies
2004
Launch of OpenStreetMap*– the Wikipedia of maps
2005
Launch of Google Maps after the acquisition of*Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies
2007
On 1 October,*2007 Nokia acquired Navteq*and later rebranded to Here for*€5.7 billion.
2007
TomTom acquired TeleAtlas for €2.9 billion in*October, 2007.
2007
The launch of iPhone, which changed the way we use and interact with location and maps today.
2009
The launch of Foursquare one of*a few local search and location-sharing apps that made it to the mainstream
2011
Launch of Geoawesomeness.com
2012
The launch of Apple Maps in June 2012. At the beginning hated, now accepted by many.
2013
Introduction of iBeacon – new*Bluetooth low energy protocol*introduced*Apple that solved most of Bluetooth related problems for proximity positioning.
2013
Google Acquired Waze*for $1bln in June 2013
2015
Yahoo! Maps have been shut down in*June 2015.
Found a missing milestone? Put it in comment and we’ll add it to the timeline!
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