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With “father of GIS” Roger Tomlinson receiving the National Geographic Society’s Bell Medal earlier this month, the “local-boy-makes-good” story is inevitable: the Ottawa Citizen has a profile. (This is not his first major award; he’s already got the Order of Canada, which, for those of you who are not Canadians, let me tell you, is as big a deal as it gets up here.) Via Matt Artz.

Previously: NGS Awards Medals to Tomlinson, Dangermond; “Data for Decision”: GIS on Punchcards; Roger Tomlinson: The Father of GIS.