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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@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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