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From time to time, I like to mention some of the pioneers or key players,
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key figures that have shaped the evolution of GIS over time;
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and one of those key figures is Jack Dangermond,
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the founder, with his wife Laura of ESRI,
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one of the biggest most dominant players in GIS software in the world.
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So, around the same time that Roger Tomlinson was
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developing the Canadian Geographic Information System,
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there was a lot of activity at Harvard in
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the new Harvard laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis.
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It included a lot of geographers and landscape architects,
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and much of the early Jaya software development started there.
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One grad student that worked there,
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was studying there, was named Jack Dangermond.
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He'd been studying urban planning and landscape architecture,
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and when he graduated,
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he moved back to his hometown of Redlands,
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California and started his own company called
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Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969.
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From the ESRI website,
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"Jack and Laura Dangermond founded ESRI in
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1969 as a small research group focused on land use planning.
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The company's early mission was to organize and analyze geographic information to help
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land planners and land resource managers make well-informed environmental decisions."
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In spite of the academic sounding name and early intentions,
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it evolved into a software company and he
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hired some of the people that he knew from Harvard and they created this first product,
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what was originally called ArcInfo.
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So, Jack Dangermond and ESRI were instrumental in commercializing GIS.
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The importance of this was that it took GIS out of university labs and
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government agencies and made it accessible
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to anyone to use: governments, businesses, individuals.
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So, in other words, you could now buy software instead of having to create it yourself.
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ESRI has the largest GIS market share in the world,
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and from the Forbes website,
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there's some quotes from there, it says,
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"Jack Dangermond is the unrivaled king of GIS technology,
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the specialized software used for creating digital maps.
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He founded this company, ESRI,
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in 1969 with $1,100 in personal savings.
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Today, ESRI dominates the industry with over 40% of
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GIS market share and more than $1 billion in annual revenue.
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His 350,000 customers use ESRI products to make 150 million new maps each day.
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Dangermond started the company with his wife Laura after
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studying landscape architecture at Harvard,
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and has since become known as a prolific philanthropist.
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He has gifted up to $1 billion of free GIS software to all American K-12 schools,
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and was honored as the United Nations champion of the Earth in 2013.
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The son of the maiden gardener,
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Dangermond continues to attend work alongside his wife every morning."
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That's the bit of information from the Forbes website.
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So, I think you get the idea is that,
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I think he's somebody that's useful to know who he is.
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If you're new to GIS and new to the industry
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is that he's someone you'll probably hear about.
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I think he's somebody that,
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I always think of him as the Bill Gates of GIS perhaps,
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and I think anytime there's a major player,
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a dominant player in industries such as GIS and with ESRI,
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there's some people who want to take shots at them and say,
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they roll their eyes at them or whatever.
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But I have to say that they're a very good company.
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Jack Dangermond, I've never met him but I've seen him speak at conferences
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and he's an incredibly genuine sincere person who really wants to help
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people learn how to better understand the world
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and contribute to a better environment
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and better understanding of everything that's going on.
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So, he's definitely somebody that I think has had a huge impact on GIS as an industry,
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but also just in terms of the way people think
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about GIS and the way that people work with it.6102
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