Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Mateusz Loskot 

George Silva wrote:

Hello lists,

As you can i see im mailing this message to some lists around the web 
(im sorry if thats a problem).


At the moment i am writing my BSc thesis (Geography) focusing the 
development of a open source software and database for logging and 
analysing traffic accidents in Uberlândia, MG - Brazil.


I am dedicating a chapter in my thesis to explaining Open Source 
Software, and OSS for GIS. i searched the web for some history of OSS in 
general, but i found too many different sources. So i come to you, 
developers of GIS OSS, to see if you can give me references of where to 
search for the history and process regarding this theme.


George,

Here is number of keywords related to history of FOSS4G
and that you may google for and find details:

- Sol Katz
- Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS)
- GRASS History (http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasshist.html)
- UMP MapServer history

Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Brief history of GIS OSS (bit off topic?)

2008-08-20 Thread Lucena, Ivan 
George,

  I am using to build this system PostgreSQL + PostGIS, QGis and PHP. In
  advance i would like to thank David Bitner who helped me alot by letting
  me use his geocoding function for PostGIS.

I guess you should also find support from a native FOSS project in your 
country, terralib.org. It supports several RDBMS including PostgreSQL (with and 
without PostGIS) and there is also a TerraPHP API. 

You can also find thesis from students from the department where TerraLib is 
developed at http://www.dpi.inpe.br/geopro/teses.html, including mine :)

List of TerraLib projects: 
http://www.terralib.org/php/about.php?body=ListofProjects

There was a article with the INPE's FOSS history on this same website but I 
think they took it off.

Hope it helps,

Best regards,

Ivan
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