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NR 322: Quick History of GIS Jim Graham Fall 2008.

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1 NR 322: Quick History of GIS Jim Graham Fall 2008

2 Where does it start? When was the first time someone scratched a map in the sand? Carved the number of fruit trees on their land onto a plank of wood?

3 Town Plan from Catal Hyük (6200 B.C.) http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.missbarbara.net/carto.gif&imgrefurl=http://missbarbara.net/&h=160&w=155&sz=28&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=KvjKVX9L0flPHM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dancient%2Bmaps%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

4 Newgrange (3300 BC)

5 Stonehenge (3000BC)

6 First World Map: 500 BCE Neo-Babylonian (Persian Period) Copy of an original dating to the Sargonid Period, circa late eighth or seventh century BCE

7 Interpretation http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/103.html

8 Homer’s View of the Earth

9 Roman fresco globe 50 A.D.

10 Madaba Mosaic Map: Palestine, 565 A.D.

11 Plan of Jerusalem, c. 1200 Psalter-fragment The Hague

12 Pietro Vesconte's World Maps, 1321 East

13 Henry The Navigator Portuguese prince Born: 1394 1498 Vasco de Gama sailed from Portugal to India

14 Cantino world map (1502) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_world_maps

15 Piri Reis map (1513)

16 First Map of 4 Known Continents Sebastian Munster 1544

17 Medieval map of the Black Sea

18 Polynesian Stick Maps

19 Buddhist Temple Complex

20 Position Sun, Moon, and Stars? Sun, Moon, Stars and Stexant -> Latitude Sun, Moon, Stars, Stextant, and Chronometer -> Latitude and Longitude GPS

21 Direction Sun, moon, and stars Compass GPS (as long as you are moving!)

22 Recent Past Surveying with glass optics and “chains” –USGS Topographic Maps Charts and Sextants Compasses Street Maps

23 Current GIS Computers with GIS Software (ArcGIS) Aerial & Satellite photography Laser surveys LandSat Satellite Images GPS Satellite Network

24 Future of GIS? Interconnected Earth –Google Earth?

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26 Martin Behaim globe (1492)

27 Fra Mauro world map (1459)

28 World map according to Posidonius (150-130 B.C.)


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