Developed by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, it was called the Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) and was used to store, analyze, and manipulate data collected for the Canada Land Inventory – an effort to determine the land capability for rural Canada by mapping information about soils, agriculture, recreation, wildlife, waterfowl, forestry and land use at a scale of 1:50,000.
Razvio ga je Roger Tomlinson, a nazvan je "Kanadskim GIS-om" (Canadian GIS; CGIS) i koristio se za spremanje, analiziranje i rukovanje podacima prikupljenima za Kanadski zemljišni inventar (Canadian Land Inventory; CLI)—inicijativa za određivanje sposobnosti zemlje u ruralnoj Kanadi kartiranjem informacija o tlu, poljoprivredi, rekreaciji, divljini, vodenim pticama, šumarstvu i upotrebi zemljišta u mjerilu 1:250,000.