Changes between Version 32 and Version 33 of MapServerHistory

Timestamp:

Jan 27, 2009, 2:29:35 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

jmckenna

Comment:

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MapServerHistory

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-= MapServer History =
+= !MapServer History =
 
-This page will act as a sandbox for compiling notes on the history of MapServer, for publishing to the main MapServer website, as well as Wikipedia.
+This page will act as a sandbox for compiling notes on the history of !MapServer, for publishing to the main !MapServer website, as well as Wikipedia.
 
 The project was born of necessity and frustration with commercial Web-based mapping offerings available in the mid-1990s. The initial interest was in developing spatially-enabled Web applications and not the software to make that possible.
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 == 1996 ==
    * user community of 10
-   * a few external organizations using MapServer
+   * a few external organizations using !MapServer
    * 2.0 released as final ForNET deliverable
 
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 == 1998 ==
-   * researchers in the Dept of Forest Resources, UMN receive continued funding from NASA for TerraSIP to deliver land use/land cover data over the Web through extensions to MapServer
+   * researchers in the Dept of Forest Resources, UMN receive continued funding from NASA for TerraSIP to deliver land use/land cover data over the Web through extensions to !MapServer
    * focused on using multispectral and hyperspectral data
       * functionality eventually provided by GDAL
 
 == 1999 == 
-   * UMN makes MapServer open source
+   * UMN makes !MapServer open source
    * 3.0 released
    * (presumably 3.1 and 3.2 are released too)
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 == 2000 ==
    * 3.3 released with !MapScript
-   * DM Solutions Group adopts MapServer and starts contributing to the project
+   * DM Solutions Group adopts !MapServer and starts contributing to the project
    * PHP !MapScript developed
    * Windows support developed
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 == 2002 ==
-   * MapServer used as underlying framework for CGDI WMS Client Component (CWC2), later renamed to Chameleon
+   * !MapServer used as underlying framework for CGDI WMS Client Component (CWC2), later renamed to Chameleon
    * 3.5 released
-   * (May) The [http://atlas.gc.ca/ Atlas of Canada] is migrated / released, mapping / visualization powered by MapServer
+   * (May) The [http://atlas.gc.ca/ Atlas of Canada] is migrated / released, mapping / visualization powered by !MapServer
 
 == 2003 ==
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       * FastCGI support
       * i18 encoding
-   * (May) The [http://atlas.gc.ca/ Atlas of Canada] WMS is officially published, powered by MapServer
+   * (May) The [http://atlas.gc.ca/ Atlas of Canada] WMS is officially published, powered by !MapServer
    * (June) initial [http://www.maptools.org/fgs/ FGS] Linux installer release
    * (Dec) main website ported to Plone architecture
 
 == 2005 ==
-   * (July) Creation of the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1 MapServer Technical Steering Committee (TSC)]
+   * (July) Creation of the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1 !MapServer Technical Steering Committee (TSC)]
    * 4.6 released
       * GEOS support
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 == 2007 ==
-   * (April) The TSC becomes the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23 MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC)]
+   * (April) The TSC becomes the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23 !MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC)]
    * (April) moved to OSGeo infrastructure (issue tracker moved to trac and version control moved to Subversion)
    * 5.0 released
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    * (December) website moved to OSGeo infrastructure
       * migration from http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ (Plone) to http://mapserver.osgeo.org/ (Sphinx)
-   * (December) MapServer graduates OSGeo incubation as official OSGeo project
+   * (December) !MapServer graduates OSGeo incubation as official OSGeo project
 
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