Open Source GIS History

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== Software projects ==

In '''XX''' and '''XXI''' century, a series of other desktop and server Open Source GIS projects were started:
* geospatial libraries: [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://www.osgeo.org/geotools Geotools], Geoserver, TerraLib
* Desktop GIS: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS], SAGA GIS, uDIG, [http://www.osgeo.org/gvsig gvSIG], ILWIS
* Web mapping/WebGIS: [http://www.osgeo.org/deegree deegree], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]
* geostatistics software: gstat, R Project for Statistical Computing

=== Timeline ===

'''1978''' - Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS). A pioneer vector-based geographic information system (GIS) developed by the U.S. Department of Interior. MOSS is still available to download (ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/). Dr. Carl Reed has written an article about [http://www.scribd.com/doc/4606038/2004-Article-by-Carl-Reed-MOSS-A-Historical-perspective MOSS history].

'''since 1982-today''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/grass GRASS] (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) is the earliest Open Source GIS which reached production status and supported both raster and vector data. It was originally developed from 1982 to 1995 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, since then by the international GRASS Development Team. Initially published as public domain software, its license was changed to GNU GPL (General Public License, see www.gnu.org) in 1999.

'''1983''' - [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4 library] development started. The original proj was developed in the early 1980's as a ratfor (a fortran preprocessor)
program (Evenden, 1983) with much of the code derived from the Geological
Survey’s General Cartographic Transformation Package (gctp) (superceded
by a more portable Version II by Elassal, 1987). Program proj was recoded in the
C language when the mapgen package (Evenden and Botbol, 1985), of which proj
is an integral part, was transfered to the Unix operating system. (References refer to [ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/OF90-284.pdf])

'''1995''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer] project started. In '''2002''' MapServer gets Python support.

'''1998''' - [http://deegree.org/ deegree] development started with an OGC Simple Features implementation. The project was renamed from JaGo to deegree in '''2002'''.

'''1998''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gdal_ogr GDAL/OGR] development started. Python support was added in '''2000'''.

'''1999''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] source code moved from manual management into CVS

'''2000''' - Atlantis Scientific launched [http://openev.sourceforge.net/ OpenEV] project

'''2000''' - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/ JTS Topology Suite] project was initiated in Fall 2000. JTS 1.0 was released in February '''2002''' and version 1.1 in March '''2002'''.

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/ossim OSSIM] initial revision in CVS

'''2001''' - [http://www.postgis.org PostGIS] started

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork opensource] started as GeoNetwork, later renamed to GeoNetwork opensource.

'''2002''' - Intevation,Gmbh starts [http://thuban.intevation.org Thuban] projects

'''2002''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/qgis Quantum GIS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://geos.refractions.net/ GEOS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://avpython.sourceforge.net/ AVPython] for ArcView 3.x published as FOSS

'''2003''' - [http://communitymapbuilder.org Community MapBuilder] started . The end of life of MapBuilder project was officially [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/EndOfLife announced] on '''28 July 2008'''. [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction#StrategicDirection-KeyMilestones ref]

'''2003''' - Release of [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] under the GNU GPL license

'''2003''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gvSIG gvSIG] was started

'''2005''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] gets first bits in CVS

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/openlayers OpenLayers] started

'''2008''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] runs natively also on MS-Windows

== Organizations ==

'''1992:''' "Open GRASS Foundation" (OGF)

'''1994:''' OGF was re-structured as the Open Geospatial Consortium ([http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong OGC])

'''2006:''' Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) established whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies, data and educational material.

== See also ==

* Kenn Gardel's OGC history: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong
* [[History|OSGeo Foundation History]]
* Software projects:
** GRASS GIS History: http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html
** PostGIS History: http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/history/
** JTS / GEOS History: http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/history-of-jts-and-geos.html
** MapServer History: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/MapServerHistory

[[Category: History]]

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