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

[Rafal Wawer]

Thank you very much Mateusz.
So far we are utilizing Paul Ramzsy's classification to "language tribes" 
and the utility groups from CASCADOSS inventory. A time dimension is a very 
nice add-on, especially that I am expecting a large growth in number of 
software projects becoming OSS4G to be visible during last years.

Best regards:
Pozdrawiam serdecznie:
RAf

Dr. Rafal Wawer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mateusz Loskot" <mateusz at loskot.net>
To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS(bit 
offtopic?)


> 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, http://osgeo.org
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