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ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li>British</li> <li>Canadian</li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th> <td class="infobox-data"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_of_Nottingham?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Acadia_University?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Acadia University">Acadia University</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/McGill_University?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="McGill University">McGill University</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_College_London?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University College London">University College London</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th> <td class="infobox-data role">Geographer</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th> <td class="infobox-data"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/UCGIS?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="UCGIS">UCGIS</a> Fellow,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Order_of_Canada?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Order of Canada">Order of Canada</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell_Medal?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Graham Bell Medal">Alexander Graham Bell Medal</a> of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/National_Geographic_Society?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="National Geographic Society">National Geographic Society</a>, Gold Medal of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Geographical_Society?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Royal Canadian Geographical Society">Royal Canadian Geographical Society</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Murchison_Award?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Murchison Award">Murchison Award</a> of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a>, honorary <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Doctorate_of_Science?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctorate of Science">Doctorate of Science</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_of_Nottingham?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>, honorary <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Doctorate_of_Science?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctorate of Science">Doctorate of Science</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Acadia_University?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Acadia University">Acadia University</a>, honorary <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Doctorate_of_Science?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctorate of Science">Doctorate of Science</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/McGill_University?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="McGill University">McGill University</a>, honorary Member of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors, honorary <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Doctorate_of_Science?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctorate of Science">Doctorate of Science</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_of_Lethbridge?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University of Lethbridge">University of Lethbridge</a>, URISA GIS Hall of Fame</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"> <input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"> <div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Awards_and_honours"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Awards and honours</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span 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He received a master's degree in geography from <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/McGill_University?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> where he specialised in the glacial <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Geomorphology?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Geomorphology">geomorphology</a> of <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Labrador?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Labrador">Labrador</a>. His Doctoral thesis at <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_College_London?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University College London">University College London</a> was titled: <i>The application of electronic computing methods and techniques to the storage, compilation, and assessment of mapped data.</i></p> <p>Tomlinson's early career included serving as an assistant professor at Acadia, working as the manager of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Geographic_information_system?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Geographic information system">computer mapping</a> division at Spartan Air Services in <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Ottawa?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a>, Ontario (following his studies at McGill), and work with the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Government_of_Canada?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Government of Canada">Government of Canada</a> first as a consultant and later as a director of regional planning systems with the Department of Forestry and Rural Development.</p> <p>It was during his tenure in the 1960s with Ottawa-based aerial survey company Spartan Air Services that Tomlinson conceptualized combining land use mapping with emerging computer technology. This pioneering work led him to initiate, plan and direct the development of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Canada_Geographic_Information_System?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Canada Geographic Information System">Canada Geographic Information System</a>, the first computerised GIS in the world.</p> <p>From the 1970s until his death, Tomlinson worked in geographic consulting and research for a variety of private sector, government, and non-profit organisations, largely through his Ottawa-based company, Tomlinson Associates Ltd., which has branches of consulting geographers in Canada, the United States, and Australia.</p> <p>He was Chairman of the International Geographical Union GIS Commission for 12 years. He pioneered the concepts of worldwide geographical data availability as Chairman of the IGU Global Database Planning Project in 1988. He was also a president of the Canadian Association of Geographers.</p> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Roger_Tomlinson&action=edit&section=2&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Awards and honours" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>He was recipient of Canadian Association of Geographers rare award for Service to the Profession. The Association of American Geographers in the United States awarded him the James R. Anderson Medal of Honor for Applied Geography in 1995 and he was the first recipient of the Robert T. Aangeenbrug Distinguished Career Award in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Tomlinson was an Honorary Fellow of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a> and winner of their <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Murchison_Award?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Murchison Award">Murchison Award</a> for the Development of <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Geographic_Information_Systems?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographic Information Systems">Geographic Information Systems</a>. In 1996 he was awarded the GIS World Lifetime Achievement Award for a lifetime of work with GIS, and he was the first recipient of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Environmental_Systems_Research_Institute?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Systems Research Institute">ESRI</a> Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. In 2004, in recognition of his numerous achievements in the industry, the GIS Certification Institute awarded Tomlinson the GISP Certificate for Lifetime GIS Achievement and he was inducted into URISA's GIS Hall of Fame <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222180347/http://www.urisa.org/awards/roger-tomlinson/">Archived</a> 22 February 2014 at the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wayback_Machine?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and awarded lifetime membership. In 2010 Tomlinson received the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/NGS_Alexander_Graham_Bell_Medal?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="NGS Alexander Graham Bell Medal">Alexander Graham Bell Medal</a> of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/National_Geographic_Society?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="National Geographic Society">National Geographic Society</a> (together with <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jack_Dangermond?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jack Dangermond">Jack Dangermond</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, he was presented with an Honorary Membership in the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors. Tomlinson also received the Geospatial Information & Technology Association Lifetime Achievement Award.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, Tomlinson was awarded a Fellow of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_Consortium_for_Geographic_Information_Science?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University Consortium for Geographic Information Science">University Consortium for Geographic Information Science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p> <p>More recently, he was made a fellow of <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_College_London?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University College London">University College London</a> and received honorary Doctorates of Science from the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_of_Nottingham?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Acadia_University?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Acadia University">Acadia University</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/McGill_University?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="McGill University">McGill University</a>, and the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/University_of_Lethbridge?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="University of Lethbridge">University of Lethbridge</a>. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Geographical_Society?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Royal Canadian Geographical Society">Royal Canadian Geographical Society</a> and was awarded the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Order_of_Canada?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Order of Canada">Order of Canada</a> by the Governor General for "changing the face of geography as a discipline." In 2013, he was promoted to Officer of the Order of Canada by the Governor General.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roger_Tomlinson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Roger_Tomlinson&action=edit&section=3&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Arthur_Getis?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Arthur Getis">Arthur Getis</a> – American geographer and spatial statistician</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Cynthia_Brewer?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Cynthia Brewer">Cynthia Brewer</a> – American geographer</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/George_F._Jenks?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="George F. 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Jenks</a> – American geographer and cartographer</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jack_Dangermond?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jack Dangermond">Jack Dangermond</a> – American billionaire businessman</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Michael_DeMers?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Michael DeMers">Michael DeMers</a> – American geographer and fiction writer</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Michael_Frank_Goodchild?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Michael Frank Goodchild">Michael Frank Goodchild</a> – British-American geographer</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Technical_geography?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Technical geography">Technical geography</a> – Study of using and creating tools to manage spatial information</li> <li><a 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