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\page credits Acknowledgements and Credits

\section warning WARNING

Acknowledging and crediting all those who have contributed to GDAL is a
daunting task. The rest of this page reflects the credits that were relevant
from GDAL debut in 1998 until 2008-2009.

You can have an idea of current and past contributors at
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/graphs/contributors

\section credits_1998_2009 Credits by Frank Warmerdam for period 1998-2009

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.<p>

<i>Frank Warmerdam</i><p>

\section credits_personal Personal

<ul>
<li> <b>Andrey Kiselev</b>: 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.  <p>

<li> <b>Daniel Morissette</b>: for his key contributions to CPL library, and
development of the Mapinfo TAB translator.<p>

<li> <b>Howard Butler</b>: for substantial improvements to the python
bindings.<p>

<li> <b>Ken Shih</b>: for the bulk of the implementation of the OLE DB
provider.<p>

<li> <b>Markus Neteler</b>: for various contributions to GDAL documentation
and general supportiveness.<p>

<li> <b>Silke Reimer</b>: for work on Debian, and RPM packaging as well
as the GDAL man pages.<p>

<li> <b>Alessandro Amici</b>: for work on configuration and build system,
and for the initial Debian packaging.<p>

<li> <b>Stephane Villeneuve</b>: for development of the Mapinfo MIF
translator.<p>

<li> <b>Marin Byrne</b>: for producing the current GDAL icon set (based on
the earlier version by Martin Daly).<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.darek.info.pl/">Darek Krawczyk</a></b>: for producing design of the GDAL Team Member t-shirt (based on Marin's and Martin's graphics).<p>

</ul>

\section credits_cooperate Corporate

<ul>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.actgate.com/">Applied Coherent
Technologies</a></b>: Supported implementation of the GDAL contour generator,
as well as various improvements to HDF drivers. Has been a Silver sponsor
of GDAL.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.atlantis-scientific.com/">Atlantis
Scientific</a></b>: 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.<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.augsignals.com">A.U.G. Signals</a></b>:
Supported work on the HDF, NITF and ODBC drivers.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.avenza.com">Avenza Systems</a></b>:
Supported development of <a href="http://dgnlib.maptools.org/">dgnlib</a>,
the basis of OGR dgn support, as well as preliminary work on image warping
in GDAL.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.cadcorp.com">Cadcorp</a></b>: Supported
development of the Virtual Warped Raster capability. Has been a silver sponsor
of GDAL.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.dmsolutions.ca/">DM Solutions Group</a></b>:
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.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.ermapper.com">ERMapper</a></b>: provided
primary sponsorship for GDAL from February 2005 to November 2006 to support
work on GDAL improvement efforts not focused on any particular client project.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca">Geological Survey of Canada</a></b>,
Natural Resources Canada: Supported the initial development of the ArcSDE raster
driver. <p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.osgis.nl/">OSGIS</a></b> and the
Geo-Information and ICT Department of the Ministry of Transport, Public
Works and Water Management:
Funded the DWG/DXF writing driver in OGR.<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.geosoft.com/">Geosoft</a></b>: Supported
improvements to libtiff (RGBA Strip/Tile access), and the Arc/Info Binary Grid
driver.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.geospaceinc.com/">Geospace Inc</a></b>,
Supported the development of write functionality for the OGR ArcSDE driver. <p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.geotango.com/">GeoTango</a></b>: Supported
OGR Memory driver, Virtual Raster Filtering, and NITF RPC capabilities.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.i3.com">i-cubed</a></b>: Supported the MrSID
driver. Has been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.ingres.com/">Ingres Corporation</a></b> :
 is the premier provider of open source information
management services to the enterprise with operations in 58 countries. Has
been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.
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<li> <b><a href="http://www.intergraph.com">Intergraph</a></b>: Supported
development of the Erdas Imagine driver.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.keyhole.com">Keyhole</a></b>: Supported development
of Erdas Imagine driver, and the GDAL Warp API.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.microimages.com/">MicroImages Inc.</a></b> : Has been
a Silver sponsor of GDAL.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.opendap.org">OPeNDAP</a></b>: Supported development
of the OGR OPeNDAP Driver.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.pcigeomatics.com/">PCI Geomatics</a></b>: Supported
development of the JPEG2000 (JP2KAK) driver.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.pixia.com">Pixia</a></b>: Supported NITF/JPEG2000
read support.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.fao.org/">UN FAO</a></b>: Supported development
of the IDA (WinDisp) driver, and GDAL VB6 bindings.<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.softmaptech.com">SoftMap</a></b>: Supported
initial development of OGR as well as the OGR MapInfo integration.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.extendthereach.com/">SRC</a></b>: Supported
development of the OGR OCI (Oracle Spatial) driver. Has been a Silver sponsor
of GDAL.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.safe.com/">Safe Software</a></b>: Supported
development of the OGR OLE DB provider, TIGER/Line driver, S-57 driver,
DTED driver, FMEObjects driver, SDTS driver and NTF driver.  Has been a
Silver sponsor of GDAL.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/">
Yukon Department of the Environment</a></b>: Supported development of
CDED / USGS DEM Writer.
<p>

<li> <b><a href="http://www.waypointinfo.com/">Waypoint</a></b>:
Panorama(TM) mapping platform delivers powerful on-line mapping
services for business and government organizations, including spatial
analysis, mobile asset tracking, web publishing, and Web Mapping Services. Has
been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.
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</ul>

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