[Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS(bit offtopic?)

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Good idea.  As well, it might be useful for the various project that
have Wikipedia entries to update their respective histories, or update
them on their own project websites and have Wikipedia ref them.

..Tom
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dave McIlhagga
> Sent: 21 August, 2008 12:55 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS 
> OSS(bit offtopic?)
> 
> someone might be interested in getting this historical info 
> into the wikipedia entry for OSGeo - would also provide a 
> good way for long term maintenance and updating.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgeo
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> On 21-Aug-08, at 11:41 AM, Steven M. Ottens wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In light of the EndOfLive announcement of Mapbuilder I have 
> done some 
> > research on the history of mapbuilder:
> >
> > 29 september 2001 Mapbuilder-devel mailinglist created
> > 28 july 2008 End Of Life announcement
> >
> > Regards
> > Steven
> >
> > On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> >
> >> Rafal Wawer wrote:
> >>> Thank you Markus,
> >>> I will teach FOSS4G upcoming days. The article appeared right on 
> >>> time  for me to include it in the references (-; 
> Hopefully it will 
> >>> develop to cover most of the existing FOSS4G projects. A 
> roadmap of 
> >>> FOSS4G projects?
> >>
> >> Rafal,
> >>
> >> Recently, I've been writing a small article about FOSS in GIS with 
> >> focus on Python applications and researched the history a 
> bit. Here 
> >> is a list of dates I've identified:
> >>
> >> late 70's - begin of Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS)
> >>
> >> late 80's - US Army starts Geographic Resources Analysis Support 
> >> System (GRASS)
> >>
> >> 1998 - GDAL initial revision in CVS
> >>
> >> 2000 - GDAL gets Python support
> >>
> >> 2000 - Atlantis Scientific starts OpenEV
> >>
> >> 2000 - MapServer initial revision in CVS
> >>
> >> 2001 - OSSIM initial revision in CVS
> >>
> >> 2002 - Intevation starts Thuban projects
> >>
> >> 2002 - Quantum GIS initial revision in CVS
> >>
> >> 2002 - GEOS initial revision in CVS
> >>
> >> 2002 - MapServer gets Python support
> >>
> >> 2002 - AVPython for ArcView 3.x published as FOSS
> >>
> >> 2006 - MapBender gets first bits in CVS
> >>
> >> Certainly, only a small part of FOSS4G projects are listed.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> --
> >> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, 
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