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The first documented use of GIS

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Steven Johnson tells the story of a cholera outbreak in 1854 London, and the famous map that physician John Snow made of the disease’s path. The first documented GIS analysis.


This is the third in my series on interesting TED talks.

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