This excerpt from a booklet on Canada’s land management tools provides a retrospective on the development of the Canada Land Inventory, including remarks on the use of GIS to complete it. This is frequently cited as the world’s first GIS, and for good reason: major aspects of our contemporary geospatial vocabulary, such as organizing features into points, lines, and polygons, originated with Canada GIS.
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Making A Difference: The Canada Land Inventory
| Title | Understanding Canada’s Lands |
| Creator | Canadian Wildlife Service Ecological Application Research Division |
| Year | 1988 |
| Location | University of Toronto Libraries |