23rd Annual GIS Day

He is acknowledged as the individual who 1854 employed spatial analysis in written history for the first time to establish geographic links and identify the origin of a cholera outbreak in London.

• Dr. David Livingstone

• Dr. Leonard McCoy

• Dr. John Snow

• Dr. Joseph Lister

In which year was selective availability disabled on GPS, granting public access to this technology?

• 1999

• 1996

• 2000

• 2003

This Canadian Geographer is known as the father of GIS

• Roger Tomlinson

• Waldo Tobler

• Michael Goodchild

• Alexander von Humboldt

In 1969, this individual founded the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

• Michael Dell

• Jack Dangermond

• Steve Wozniak

• Linus Torvalds

This US Bureau was an early adopter of some of the core principles of GIS

• US Department of State

• US Bureau of Land Management

• US Census Bureau

• US Bureau of Labor

  In what year did ESRI release the first commercial GIS product, ARC / INFO, that began the evolution of ESRI into a software company?

• 1984

• 1987

• 1990

• 1981

In 1909 the first aerial photographs from an airplane were taken by this person.

• Wilbur Wright

• Amelia Earhart

• Howard Huges

• Chuck Yeager

When was ArcGIS Pro released?

• 2010

• 2005

• 2009

• 2015

John Harrison was the first recipient of this prize, first offered by the British government in 1714.

• The Latitude Prize

• The Polar Expedition Award

• The Longitude Proze

• The Mercader Prize

This refers to a theoretical surface depicting the shape the Earth's oceans would assume in the absence of land, allowing water to freely respond to gravitational and centrifugal forces.

• The Ellipsoid

• The Spheroid

• The Geoid

• The Datum