{"id":866,"date":"2014-02-12T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=866"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:09:44","slug":"r-i-p-dr-roger-tomlinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Dr. Roger Tomlinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Roger Tomlinson, the &#8216;Father of GIS&#8217;, passed away on February 9, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gislounge.com\/roger-tomlinson-father-gis-died\/\">GISLounge<\/a> for a brief news release and <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/tvBVa\">The Globe and Mail<\/a>\u00a0for a summary of his accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eAFG6aQTwPk&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\">video<\/a> showing the first true GIS is available on YouTube, and a helpful web citizen posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/povesham.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/11\/environmental-information-systems-r-f-tomlinson-1970\/\">link<\/a> to a PDF of the first GIS meeting proceedings &#8211; from 1970!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Esri Canada (eh?) has put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.ca\/en\/content\/esri-canada-honours-life-dr-roger-tomlinson-%E2%80%9Cfather-gis%E2%80%9D\">tribute<\/a> to Dr. Tomlinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Roger Tomlinson, the &#8216;Father of GIS&#8217;, passed away on February 9, 2014. Visit GISLounge for a brief news release and The Globe and Mail\u00a0for a summary of his accomplishments. A video showing the first true GIS is available on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}