Re: [GRASS-user] mossy grass seeds

2009-02-16 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 16/02/09 08:52, Markus Neteler wrote: 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: * GRASS History II: GRASS Roots by

[GRASS-user] mossy grass seeds

2009-02-15 Thread Hamish
Hi, Inspired by Benjamin's rather nice OS/archaeology presentation[1] I was reading a piece[2] by Carl Reed (CTO of the OGC) about his work on MOSS GIS from the late 70s - early 80s while at the US FWS. MOSS was a vector GIS [and Carl claims the first interactive user GIS] early GRASS [several

Re: [GRASS-user] mossy grass seeds

2009-02-15 Thread Markus Neteler
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