HistoryHistory
••was started in 2001 by The Open Planning Project (TOPP), a nonby non--profit technology incubator based in New York.
••The first of these was GeoServer, which came out of a recognition that a suite of tools to enable citizen involvement in government and urban planning would be greatly enhanced by the ability to share spatial datashare data..
••GeoServer founded the GeoToolsGeoTools project, an open source GIS Java toolkit.