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

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Fri Aug 22 07:47:28 PDT 2008


Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> 
> I've found [1] exact year when MOSS was published/released - 1978
> It's also confirmed on Polish GeoForum website [2]
> 
> [1] 
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4606038/2004-Article-by-Carl-Reed-MOSS-A-Historical-perspective 
> 
> [2] 
> http://www.geoforum.pl/pages/index.php?page=GIS_chronologia2&id_catalog_text=2366 
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/geoforum-moss-1978
> 

Carl Reed's article is very interesting... I've updated the wiki with a 
link to it and the 1978 date:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History

It's a wiki so you can/should all add your findings to it.

Daniel
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