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Bird's Eye View of Toronto

Map or Series Date: 1876
Creator: P.A. Gross in the Office of the Canadian Minister of Agriculture; 002.tif on CD-ROM 2 in U of T Map Library
Description: Toronto, Ontario
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"The low level of microblog engagement: Despite the Twitter (Twitter) hype, microblogging is still not a mass social activity and nowhere near the size and scale of blogging."

"This is a map of known "cloud" datacenters, per company. Notice how they cluster together."

If you speak ‘nerd’, or know someone who does, then the rest of this could apply to you. There are some high-level FAQs about data formats, and a link to a form to fill-out if you have some data and you want to partner with Google to get your data integrated into Google Maps. The data we most care about here, of course, is bike-related data — bike lanes, routes, paths, etc.

The year 1962 saw the development of the world's first true operational GIS in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by the federal Department of Forestry and Rural Development. Developed by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, it was called the "Canada Geographic Information System" (CGIS) and was used to store, analyze, and manipulate data collected for the Canada Land Inventory (CLI)—an initiative to determine the land capability for rural Canada by mapping information about soils, agriculture, recreation, wildlife, waterfowl, forestry, and land use at a scale of 1:50,000. A rating classification factor was also added to permit analysis.