1972年，在中国科学院地理研究所陈述彭先生的指导下，开始主攻地图制图自动化方向，并于1974年招收了两届以制图自动化为主要方向的地图学专业学生。当时是国内高校中最早进行计算机制图教学研究的单位。后来考虑地图生产现状及社会需求，在学生培养方向上兼顾了地图传统制图与计算机辅助制图两个方面。1977年本系成立了遥感应用研究组（后改为遥感应用研究室），1979年开始招收地图学与遥感专业硕士研究生。八十年代后期，地图学科随着计算机科学、信息科学和遥感技术的迅速发展日益表现出数字信息处理和地理信息系统组建与应用的时代特征，为反映相应人才培养的素质要求，于1992年经国家教委批准更名为”地图学与地理信息系统”专业。2000年11月南京大学国际地球系统科学研究所成立，许多优秀的海外华人学者加盟本专业，壮大了该学科的力量，扩大了国际影响。2006年5月城市与资源学系升格为地理与海洋科学学院，原 GIS教研室也随之升格为地理信息科学系。

现在该学科拥有”地图学与地理信息系统”、”资源环境遥感（自主设立）”两个博士点，”地图学与地理信息系统”、”摄影测量与遥感”两个硕士点，”地理信息系统”一个本科招生专业。其中”地图学与地理信息系统”是江苏省重点学科，地理信息系统本科专业是江苏省特色专业。有”南京市勘查测绘研究院”、”镇江市勘查测绘研究院”两个教学实习基地。建立起了一套完整的从本科、硕士、博士到博士后的人才培养体系。本学科要求学生具有扎实的地理学和数学基础，能根据实地调查、遥感遥测和数字资料，运用地图学现代理论和技术系统（遥感技术、计算机制图和地理信息系统），从事普通地图、专题地图和地图集的设计与编绘，以及地理信息系统的开发与设计，包括能应用计算机建造地理数据库、运用现代科技手段来分析和应用地图以及进行地理信息的数字处理、空间分析和制图输出，为区域开发、管理、规划决策提供有效的信息与各种类型的地图产品。

“春风化雨育英才，地图桃李满天下”。地理信息系统专业（原地图学专业）创建五十年来，已为国家培养和输送了738名本科毕业生，目前在校本科生124名；地图学与GIS专业已招收了博士研究生107人，硕士研究生290人，其中182人已取得了硕士学位，39人取得了博士学位，研究生课程进修班结业66人。这些毕业生中有许多同志已成为地图学和地理信息系统界的学术带头人及教学与科研单位的骨干，留学国外的毕业生，在地理信息学领域里的研究成果颇有影响。由本专业承担或参加的两百多项国家重点项目及各类科研课题中，大部分已达到国内领先水平或国际先进水平，其中获省、部级奖五十多项。在国内率先编著出版《现代地图学理论》、《计算机地图制图》、《地理信息系统概论》及《GIS设计与实现》等方面的教材与论著。多次参加国际学术会议，并邀请国外学者来系讲学，国际学术交流活跃。
历史走进了21世纪，人类迈入了知识经济时代。全面建设小康社会，是中国在新世纪初期的宏伟战略目标。地图学、GIS以及卫星对地观测技术已渗透到经济社会发展的各个领域，新的形势赋予新的使命，南京大学地图学与GIS学科正踏着时代的脉搏阔步前进。

The university that was born nearly 20 years later was the product of a merger between the College of California (a private institution) and the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College (a land grant institution). The College of California, founded by former Congregational minister Henry Durant from New England, was incorporated in 1855 in Oakland. Its curriculum was modeled after that of Yale and Harvard, with the addition of modern languages to the core courses in Latin, Greek, history, English, mathematics, and natural history. With an eye to future expansion, the board of trustees augmented the college’s Oakland holdings with the purchase of 160 acres of land four miles north, on a site they named Berkeley in 1866. (Cal’s Charter was introduced in 1868.) This original tract was to be considerably expanded over the years.

While the College of California was in its infancy, efforts continued in the state legislature to create a public educational institution, and in 1866 the legislature took advantage of the federal Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 to establish the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. The college was to teach agricultural, mechanical arts, and military tactics “to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.” Scientific and classical studies were not to be excluded but were of secondary importance.

The boards of trustees of the College of California and the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College decided to merge the two schools to their mutual advantage — one had land but insufficient funds and the other had ample public funds but no land-on the condition that the curricula of both schools be blended to form “a complete university.” On March 23, 1868, the governor signed into law the Organic Act that created the University of California. The new university used the former College of California’s buildings in Oakland until South Hall and North Hall were completed on the Berkeley site (South Hall is still standing), and in September 1873 the University, with an enrollment of 191 students, moved to Berkeley.

Fiscal problems plagued the new University, and it was not until the 20-year presidency of Benjamin Ide Wheeler beginning in 1899 that finances stabilized, allowing the University to grow in size and distinction. Early in this period Phoebe Apperson Hearst, one of the University’s most generous benefactors, conceived of and financed an international competition for campus architectural plans that, she stipulated, “should be worthy of the great University whose material home they are to provide for.”

The competition, won by Emile Bénard of Paris, brought Berkeley not only a building plan but worldwide notoriety. The London Spectator wrote, “On the face of it this is a grand scheme, reminding one of those famous competitions in Italy in which Brunelleschi and Michaelangelo took part. The conception does honor to the nascent citizenship of the Pacific states. . . .” At Oxford University, which at the time was strapped for funds, a Latin orator said, “There is brought a report that in California there is already established a university furnished with so great resources that even to the architects (a lavish kind of men) full permission has been given to spare no expense. Amidst the most pleasant hills on an elevated site, commanding a wide sea view, is to be placed a home of Universal Science and a seat of the muses.”

John Galen Howard, the supervising architect charged with implementing the Bénard plan, took advantage of his “permission to spare no expense” and developed a style of architecture that reinterpreted the grace, dignity, and austerity of classical lines to suit the California environment. Some of the campus’s most elegant and stately structures were built during Howard’s tenure, among them the Hearst Memorial Mining Building (1902-7), the Hearst Greek Theatre (1903), California Hall (1905), Doe Library (1911-17), the Campanile (1914), Wheeler Hall (1917), Gilman Hall (1917), and Hilgard Hall (1918).

President Wheeler, a classical scholar and able administrator, attracted library and scholarship funds, research grants, and a distinguished faculty to the University, and its reputation grew, particularly in the fields of agriculture, the humanities, and engineering. Many new departments were added in the early years of his presidency, and existing departments expanded. Summer sessions were begun in 1899 to train physics and chemistry teachers and before long broadened their scope.

The University grew with the rapidly expanding population of California and responded to the educational needs of the developing state. In the early 1900s the University’s new College of Commerce (now the Haas School of Business) trained students for export trade with the Orient and funneled graduates into industries and businesses throughout the state. During the same period a foreign service training program was developed in response to State Department concern about the poor quality of consular personnel.

In 1930 Robert Gordon Sproul began a presidency that lasted three decades. His principal concern was academic excellence, and he was committed to attracting brilliant faculty in all fields. His success was particularly evident in the physical and biological sciences.

In the 1930s research on campus burgeoned in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, leading to the development of the first cyclotron by Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human polio virus, and the discovery of a string of elements heavier than uranium. Eighteen members of the Berkeley faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes for these and subsequent discoveries, as well as in literature and economics, for liberal arts kept pace with physical sciences. In 1966 Berkeley was recognized by the American Council on Education as “the best balanced distinguished university in the country.”

ps:hehe, my America Dream.