1. Well-known scholars at home and abroad you must know
1. Roger Tomlinson (Roger Tomlinson)-the father of GIS
Roger Tomlinson started to create the world's first geographic information system in 1963, the Canadian Geographic Information System (CGIS). Therefore, Tomlinson is known as the father of geographic information systems .
RogerTomlinson（1933.12---2014.2.9）
2. Michael Frank Goodchild (Michael Frank Goodchild)-the father of geographic information science
MichaelFrank Goodchild （1944.2.24—）