On 16/02/09 08:52, Markus Neteler wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Hamish <[email protected]> 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:
* 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)
And here it is:
"With a swelling of new customers, the need to maintain the software on
multiple computers running at multiple sites, we packaged our 20
programs and called the turn-key solution GRASS the Geographic Resource
Analysis Support System. The name continued a series of GIS names
based on plants: SAGE, a DOS-based GIS, and MOSS (Mapping Overlay
Statistical System), developed by The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)."
So, yes same as elm/pine etc.
Moritz
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