With great sadness, we learned today that Dr. Roger Tomlinson, our dear friend and amazing mentor, has moved on. Knowing Roger has been a treasure and a gift from the heavens and humanity. Spending time with him was so inspiring. Much will change, but much will continue to go on because of his help and influence to so many people across the world.
Roger is known as the Father of GIS. This may not mean much to those who do not know the power of the amazing technology that he envisioned and turned into reality. His method of focus on business problems, and using GIS to solve these was true innovation – he is the best business analyst that we have ever met… The IT people of today do not understand that the gap he will leave will be wide…
I am very sad that I will not be able to give him his annual little elephant… I will add it to his collection, and for whoever inherits this, they will have elephants from around the world…
Roger, we will always love you – you will live on in our hearts and minds forever…
