Charlie Miller (MIT) develops COGO, the first computer program for topographical surveying
Charlie Miller (MIT) develops COGO, the first computer program for topographical surveying
Early forerunner of CAD programs
Understood traditional civil engineering terms such as "locate," "inverse," "ramp" and "alignment“
Made computers more accessible to civil engineers for surveying problems
Waldo Tobler (Michigan) begins work on the first computer program for cartogram production
Waldo Tobler (Michigan) begins work on the first computer program for cartogram production
The “pseudo cartograms” were created by expanding or compressing the lat/long grid until the minimum root mean squared error of unit densities resulted
All following cartogram generation algorithms are considered decendants of Tobler’s method
