How did the GeoAPI project get started, whats its history?
You can follow the early, pre-history of GeoAPI by reading the following three posts to the DigitalEarth.org website; at this point it had no name, only a goal of bringing together multiple Java GIS projects. Call for a Geo-Spatial API Java GeoSpatial API Part II Java GeoSpatial API Part III As you can see in part III the OGC had just anounced a Geographic Objects initiative, collaboration with which ultimatly led to the GeoAPI working group within the OGC and the formation of an addopted charter.