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I’m curious, when did people in CT start getting hired for GIS positions outside of academia? Not the engineer or zoning officer who obtained GIS skills, but the earliest positions where the job role was just to know GIS software as a desktop product? I was hired as a GIS intern in 2003 so I’m aging myself here but there were already people working in the field and there were consulting firms that existed to support them.
And to set a line in the sand, I’m going to use Wikipedia and say that “In 1986, Mapping Display and Analysis System (MIDAS), the first desktop GIS product [15] was released for the DOS operating system. This was renamed in 1990 to MapInfo for Windows when it was ported to the Microsoft Windows platform. This began the process of moving GIS from the research department into the business environment." ArcView 1.0 was released in 1991 and shapefiles weren’t a thing until ArcView 2.
So, in CT, where did it begin?
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