Hello everyone, In this post I’ll talk about Roger Tomlinson Roger Tomlinson was an English geographer who lived in Canada and I admire him because he created computerized geographic information systems or GIS. Tomlinson was a member of the Order of Canada, which is the highest honor a civilian can receive. In the 1960s he worked for the Government of Canada as director of regional planning systems with the department of forest and rural development, and at this time, he planned and led the development of the first computerized GIS in the world, in other words, the first computerized GIS was Canada's geographic information system. Geographic information systems are important because they function as tools that integrate components that allow analyzing, organizing, manipulating, and modeling a large amount of data linked to spatial references. GIS is used to develop cartography, to support environmental impact studies, to evaluate resources, and for other things that can be done eff...