-CREDITS: 2004/09/10
+CREDITS: 2009/07/01
+
+The core team of PostGIS is:
+
+ Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>
+ Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca>
+ Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us>
+ Kevin Neufeld <kneufeld@refractions.net>
+ Olivier Courtin <olivier.courtin@camptocamp.com>
+ Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>
-The core team of PostGIS is from Refractions Research:
-Sandro Santilli, Paul Ramsey, Jeff Lounsbury and Chris Hodgson.
All versions include substantial contributions from the
core team.
VERSION SPECIFIC CREDITS:
-PostGIS is developed by Refractions Research Inc, of Victora,
-British Columbia, Canada (http://www.refractions.net), as an ongoing project
-in using PostgreSQL as a geospatial data-store. The following contributors
-have participated in the project:
+PostGIS was originally developed by Refractions Research Inc, of Victora,
+British Columbia, Canada (http://www.refractions.net), as a project
+in using PostgreSQL as a geospatial data-store. Refractions continues to
+provide hosting and infrastructure support to the project.
- Sandro Santilli - Maintenance and core programming (the new stuff)
- Dave Blasby - Core server objects and indexing (original contributions)
- Paul Ramsey - Extensions to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, doco, web.
- Jeff Lounsbury - Shape file loader/dumper.
+The following is a partial list of contributors who have participated
+in the project:
-Version 0.2 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
- Norman Vine on CygWin compilation issues
+See the postgis manual and the ChangeLog for more contributors.
-Version 0.5 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
- Geographic Data BC (David Skea and Mark Sondheim) with funding and
- direction on adding calculations on a spheroid to PostGIS.
+Version 1.2.1 of PostGIS includes patches from:
+ Eduin Carrillo <yecarrillo@cas.gov.co> for AsKML() and Transform()
+ short circuit.
-Version 0.7 of PostGIS includes patches from:
- Steffen Macke on numerous loader/dumper bugs.
- Bernhard Reiter on some documentation issues and a loader limit.
- Mark Cave-Ayland on truly_inside().
- STRK on shp2pgsql improvements
+Version 1.1.0 of PostGIS includes patches from:
+ Obe, Regina <robe.dnd@cityofboston.gov> with -k switch for pgsql2shp.
+
+Version 1.0.0 of PostGIS includes code from:
+ Mark Cave-Ayland <m.cave-ayland@webbased.co.uk> with new positional
+ operators, join estimator and general testing and support.
+ Markus Schaber <markus@schabi.de> author of the jdbc2 interface
+
+Version 0.9 of PostGIS includes patches from:
+ Klaus Foerster <klaus@svg.cc> on AsSVG()
+ Olivier Courtin <pnine@free.fr> on AsSVG()
+ Bruno Wolff III on the distance_sphere algorithm
Version 0.8 of PostGIS includes patches from:
Carl Anderson on schemas
Ralph Mason on WKT parsing for LWGEOM
Mark Cave-Ayland with help on PgSQL 7.5 statistics
-Version 0.9 of PostGIS includes patches from:
- Klaus Foerster <klaus@svg.cc> on AsSVG()
- Olivier Courtin <pnine@free.fr> on AsSVG()
- Bruno Wolff III on the distance_sphere algorithm
+Version 0.7 of PostGIS includes patches from:
+ Steffen Macke on numerous loader/dumper bugs.
+ Bernhard Reiter on some documentation issues and a loader limit.
+ Mark Cave-Ayland on truly_inside().
+ STRK on shp2pgsql improvements
-Version 1.0.0 of PostGIS includes code from:
- Mark Cave-Ayland <m.cave-ayland@webbased.co.uk> with new positional
- operators, join estimator and general testing and support.
- Markus Schaber <markus@schabi.de> author of the jdbc2 interface
+Version 0.5 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
+ Geographic Data BC (David Skea and Mark Sondheim) with funding and
+ direction on adding calculations on a spheroid to PostGIS.
-Version 1.1.0 of PostGIS includes patches from:
- Obe, Regina <robe.dnd@cityofboston.gov> with -k switch for pgsql2shp.
+Version 0.2 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
+ Norman Vine on CygWin compilation issues
-Version 1.2.1 of PostGIS includes patches from:
- Eduin Carrillo <yecarrillo@cas.gov.co> for AsKML() and Transform()
- short circuit.
+Version 0.1 of PostGIS included constributions from:
+ Dave Blasby - Core server objects and indexing (original contributions)
+ Paul Ramsey - Extensions to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, doco, web.
+ Jeff Lounsbury - Shape file loader/dumper.
-See the postgis manual for more contributors.