Conferences of Computer-Aided Mapping in Latin America

BUZAI, GUSTAVO

The History of Cartography. Vol.6 Cartography in the Twentieth Century

The Chicago University Press

Lugar: Chicago; Año: 2015; p. 387 - 389

The widespread diffusion of digital mapping in Latin America is closely linked to the introduction of geographic information systems (GIS) to the continent in 1987, when the first Latin American conference on computers in geography, now known as Conferencia Iberoamericana de Sistemas de Información Geográfica (CONFIBSIG) took place at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, under the auspices of the International Geographical Union. This meeting triggered the transfer of GIS technology to the countries of the region.