On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Hamish <hamis...@yahoo.com> wrote: ... > just curious: was "GRASS" just cheeky naming by a competing US Gov't GIS > team or was there tangled roots in the early days?
Here are some pointers: http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html * GRASS History I: Lynn Van Warren recalls the design of Fort Hood GIS software design that lead to GRASS development * GRASS History II: GRASS Roots by Jim Westervelt (In Proc. Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics: GIS-GRASS Users Conference 2004, Sept. 12-14, Bangkok, Thailand, 2004) * GRASS History III: Early GRASS Community Views on FOSS by Jim Westervelt (Keynote at FOSS4G2006, 11-15 September 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland) cheers Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user