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Acknowledgements and Credits
There are too many people who have helped since GDAL/OGR was launched in
late 1998 for me to thank them all. I have received moral support,
financial support, code contributions, sample datasets, and bug reports
from literally hundreds of people. However, below I would like to single
out a few people and organizations who have supported GDAL over the
years. Forgive me for all those I left out.
Frank Warmerdam
Sponsorship
ER Mapper has generously provided
ongoing primary sponsorship for GDAL since February 2005 to support work on
GDAL improvement efforts not focused on any particular client project.
Personal
- Andrey Kiselev: my right hand man on GDAL for several years.
He is primarily responsible for the HDF, MrSID, L1B, and PCIDSK drivers.
He has also relieved me of most libtiff maintenance work.
- Daniel Morissette: for his key contributions to CPL library, and
development of the Mapinfo TAB translator.
- Howard Butler: for substantial improvements to the python
bindings.
- Ken Shih: for the bulk of the implementation of the OLE DB
provider.
- Markus Neteler: for various contributions to GDAL documentation
and general supportiveness.
- Silke Reimer: for work on Debian, and RPM packaging as well
as the GDAL man pages.
- Alessandro Amici: for work on configuration and build system,
and for the initial Debian packaging.
- Stephane Villeneuve: for development of the Mapinfo MIF
translator.
Corporate
- Applied Coherent
Technologies: Supported implementation of the GDAL contour generator,
as well as various improvements to HDF drivers.
- Atlantis
Scientific: Supported the development of the CEOS,
and a variety of other radar oriented format drivers as well as
development of OpenEV, my day-to-day GDAL image viewer.
- A.U.G. Signals:
Supported work on the HDF, NITF and ODBC drivers.
- Avenza Systems:
Supported development of dgnlib,
the basis of OGR dgn support, as well as preliminary work on image warping
in GDAL.
- Cadcorp: Supported
development of the Virtual Warped Raster capability.
- DM Solutions Group:
Supported the development of the DGN driver, the OGR Arc/Info Binary
Coverage driver, OGR WCTS (Web Coordinate Transformation Server),
OGR VRT driver, ODBC driver, MySQL driver, SQLite driver, OGR JOIN and
OGR C API.
- Global Geomatics: Supported
development of GXF support.
- Geosoft: Supported
improvements to libtiff (RGBA Strip/Tile access), and the Arc/Info Binary Grid
driver.
- GeoTango: Supported
OGR Memory driver, Virtual Raster Filtering, and NITF RPC capabilities.
- i-cubed: Supported the MrSID
driver.
- Intergraph: Supported
development of the Erdas Imagine driver.
- Keyhole: Supported development
of Erdas Imagine driver, and the GDAL Warp API.
- OPeNDAP: Supported development
of the OGR OPeNDAP Driver.
- PCI Geomatics: Supported
development of the JPEG2000 (JP2KAK) driver.
- Pixia: Supported NITF/JPEG2000
read support.
- UN FAO: Supported development
of the IDA (WinDisp) driver, and GDAL VB6 bindings.
- SoftMap: Supported
initial development of OGR as well as the OGR MapInfo integration.
- SRC: Supported
development of the OGR OCI (Oracle Spatial) driver.
- Safe Software: Supported
development of the OGR OLE DB provider, TIGER/Line driver, S-57 driver,
DTED driver, FMEObjects driver, SDTS driver and NTF driver.
-
Yukon Department of the Environment: Supported development of
CDED / USGS DEM Writer.
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