[Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?)
Steven M. Ottens
steven at minst.net
Thu Aug 21 08:41:21 PDT 2008
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, http://osgeo.org
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