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?)

2008-08-22 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,

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

2008-08-21 Thread Gavin Fleming
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 writes Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:29 PM

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

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

2008-08-21 Thread Rafal Wawer
] 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

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

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

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