CREDITS: 2004/09/10 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: 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. Version 0.2 of PostGIS includes contributions from: Norman Vine on CygWin compilation issues 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 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 0.8 of PostGIS includes patches from: Carl Anderson on schemas STRK on numerous bug fixes and enhancements 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 on AsSVG() Olivier Courtin on AsSVG() Bruno Wolff III on the distance_sphere algorithm Version 1.0.0 of PostGIS includes code from: Mark Cave-Ayland with new positional operators, join estimator and general testing and support. Markus Schaber author of the jdbc2 interface Version 1.1.0 of PostGIS includes patches from: Obe, Regina with -k switch for pgsql2shp. Version 1.2.1 of PostGIS includes patches from: Eduin Carrillo for AsKML() and Transform() short circuit. See the postgis manual for more contributors.