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GIS keeps tabs on evolving world – Mapping societal patterns, movements

Jack Dangermond, a geographic-information systems pioneer and founder of ESRI, was in Denver for the Geospatial Information & Technology Association forum.

Metro Denver sometimes is called "geotech alley" because of the concentration of geospatial technology companies here.

Geologists and geographers who worked in the West’s oil and mining industries have applied their skills to so-called geographic-information systems technology.

Today, GIS is being touted as a way to electronically track the patterns and movements of such things as air traffic and the spread of disease.

"We are wiring up the world so that everything that changes in space and time will be measured," said Jack Dangermond, an industry pioneer and the founder and president of Redlands, Calif.-based ESRI, the world’s largest GIS software company.

By Kelly Yamanouchi
Denver Post Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2756302,00.html

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