history of web maps???

[Eduardo Patto Kanegae]

http://www.google.com/search?q=mapserver+history

Should help you too. :-)

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
http://www.webmapit.com.br



On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:24:35 -0400, Gregory Yetman <gyetman at CIESIN.COLUMBIA.EDU> escreveu:

> De: Gregory Yetman <gyetman at CIESIN.COLUMBIA.EDU>
> Data: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:24:35 -0400
> Para: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Assunto: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] history of web maps???
> 
> Sashi,
> 
> I don't know much about the history of mapserver, I'm sure that others 
> on the list do. I've heard that the first web mapping application was in 
> 1993, PARC by Xerox:
> 
> http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/
> 
> I know that Canada put out it's first version of it's National Atlas 
> viewer in 1994, and that the first TIGER map service from the Census 
> Bureau was in 1995.
> 
> There was a flurry of questions about this back in 2002 because of a 
> patent challenge on web mapping, not sure what happened with that. 
> There's an article at:
> 
> http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/040402.php
> 
> Are you only interested in interactive web mapping applications? I would 
> imagine that the first static web maps put up follow very closely the 
> introduction of images on the net.
> 
> Greg
> 
> Shashi Gireddy wrote:
> 
> >It was easy to find the history of cartography? but I am struggling to
> >find the history of web-maps...
> >
> >I found that of MapQuest.... those guys used to deliver directions on
> >a hard copy to all the gas stations... and these gas-stations use to
> >distribute for free....... and it became mapquest in 1996 after 5
> >years of research......
> >
> >anybody knows any more such storries.....plz help me find out. More
> >over I  also want the history of Mapserver itself.. When did NASA
> >funded UMN... where did NASA use this software...? Nasa has an
> >application similar to google earth, did NASA use mapserver for this?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >shashi.
> >
> >--
> >Shashi Kiran Reddy. Gireddy,
> >Graduate Assistant,
> >CBER, University of Alabama.
> >http://www.cs.ua.edu/shashi
> >Cell: 205-239-6655
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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