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

2008-08-23 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Cameron Shorter wrote: > I'd be more inclined to say Mapbuilder started in December 2003, when > the code for the current codebase started. Cameron, Feel free to update the Open Source GIS History article on the OSGeo Wiki accordingly. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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

2008-08-23 Thread Cameron Shorter
I'm delighted to see people documenting the OSGeo history. This sort of information is regularly embedded in presentations and it will be good to have a comprehensive history to reference. I'm hoping some historian gets inspired to collect the war stories of all the different projects, collect

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

2008-08-22 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Steven M. Ottens wrote: 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 Steven, Is it correct to consider this date as the beginning of the project? Best regards, --

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

2008-08-22 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Daniel Morissette wrote: 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

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

2008-08-22 Thread Daniel Morissette
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_chrono

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

2008-08-22 Thread Mateusz Loskot
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

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

2008-08-21 Thread Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave McIlhagga > Sent: 21 August, 2008 12:55 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS > OSS(bit offtopic?) > > someone might be interested in getting this historical info > into the wikipedia entry fo

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

2008-08-21 Thread Landon Blake
t 21, 2008 9:55 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS(bit offtopic?) someone might be interested in getting this historical info into the wikipedia entry for OSGeo - would also provide a good way for long term maintenance and updat

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

2008-08-21 Thread Dave McIlhagga
someone might be interested in getting this historical info into the wikipedia entry for OSGeo - would also provide a good way for long term maintenance and updating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgeo Dave On 21-Aug-08, at 11:41 AM, Steven M. Ottens wrote: Hi all, In light of the EndO

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

2008-08-21 Thread Steven M. Ottens
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 w

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

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Ramsey
"Users and Developers mailing list" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PostGIS Users Discussion" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit > offtopic?) > > > I have

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

2008-08-21 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Daniel Morissette wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: 2000 - MapServer initial revision in CVS MapServer started using CVS only in 2000, but existed since around 1995. Daniel, Looks I've made a blunder, MapServer folks, please forgive me :) Thanks Daniel for the update. Best regards, -- Mateusz

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

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Morissette
Mateusz Loskot wrote: 2000 - MapServer initial revision in CVS MapServer started using CVS only in 2000, but existed since around 1995. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lis

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

2008-08-21 Thread Rafal Wawer
oskot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OSGeo Discussions" 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

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

2008-08-21 Thread Mateusz Loskot
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 s

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

2008-08-21 Thread Rafal Wawer
ions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Users and Developers mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PostGIS Users Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history

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

2008-08-21 Thread Gavin Fleming
J.4 and general Projections Discussions Cc: 'OSGeo Discussions'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Users and Developers mailing list'; 'PostGIS Users Discussion' Subject: Re: [Proj] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit offtopic?) Norman Vine wrote: > Mateusz Loskot wri