The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. announces that Dr. Carl Reed, the CTO and Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium Standards Program, has been inducted into the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association GIS Hall of Fame.
URISA established the GIS Hall of Fame to recognize and honor leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual’s record of contribution to the advancement of the industry must demonstrate creative thinking and actions, vision and innovation, inspiring leadership, perseverance and community mindedness. URISA Hall of Fame Laureates are individuals or organizations whose pioneering work has moved the geospatial industry in a better, stronger direction.
Reed began his GIS career in 1969 while in university, programming an interactive GIS application for mapping and analyzing meteorological observations, one of the first interactive mapping applications. In 1977 and 1978, he designed and programmed the Map Overlay and Statistical System, the first fully interactive, full function vector based GIS. MOSS was also the first open source GIS activity, predating GRASS by several years. Dr. Reed received his PhD in Geography, specializing in GIS technology and systems architectures, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980.
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