World Coordinate Systems

• 1986 AIPS Projections standardized

• 1994 AIPS WCS software released as usable library

• 1995 WCSLIB implements draft of FITS WCS paper

• 1996 WCSTools WCS-fitting software released

• 2002 First 2 FITS WCS Papers published in A&A

• 2003 WCSLIB 3.0 released to implement papers