GDAL
Acknowledgements and Credits

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

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.

Frank Warmerdam

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.

  • Marin Byrne: for producing the current GDAL icon set (based on the earlier version by Martin Daly).

  • Darek Krawczyk: for producing design of the GDAL Team Member t-shirt (based on Marin's and Martin's graphics).

Corporate

  • Applied Coherent Technologies: Supported implementation of the GDAL contour generator, as well as various improvements to HDF drivers. Has been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.

  • 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. Has been a silver sponsor of GDAL.

  • 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.

  • ERMapper: 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.

  • Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada: Supported the initial development of the ArcSDE raster driver.

  • OSGIS 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.

  • Geosoft: Supported improvements to libtiff (RGBA Strip/Tile access), and the Arc/Info Binary Grid driver.

  • Geospace Inc, Supported the development of write functionality for the OGR ArcSDE driver.

  • GeoTango: Supported OGR Memory driver, Virtual Raster Filtering, and NITF RPC capabilities.

  • i-cubed: Supported the MrSID driver. Has been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.

  • Ingres Corporation : 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.

  • Intergraph: Supported development of the Erdas Imagine driver.

  • Keyhole: Supported development of Erdas Imagine driver, and the GDAL Warp API.

  • MicroImages Inc. : Has been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.

  • 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. Has been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.

  • 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. Has been a Silver sponsor of GDAL.

  • Yukon Department of the Environment: Supported development of CDED / USGS DEM Writer.

  • Waypoint: 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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