Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!
@ingrid Worldwide? I started in 1990 in the UK in one of the national GIS labs set up for social science/health research. First job was implementing spatial stats in ARC/INFO...
@geospacedman I'm looking a bit more at the industry side than government but user stories and gov adoption is certainly relevant
@richlv @geospacedman yes! would very much like to avoid academic geography's weird tendency to treat OSM and open source mapping stuff as some weird alternate dimension of GIS
@ingrid @geospacedman And the corporate history cannot be always trusted - somebody 50 years later could stumble upon this quote from an Apple manager and have an utterly incorrect impression… https://en.osm.town/@SK53/110864447079543025
@ingrid @geospacedman
Do you plan to cover also community / open data aspects?