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PostGIS is developed by Refractions Research Inc, as a spatial database technology research project. Refractions is a GIS and database consulting company in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, specializing in data integration and custom software development. We plan on supporting and developing PostGIS to support a range of important GIS functionality, including full OpenGIS support, advanced topological constructs (coverages, surfaces, networks), desktop user interface tools for viewing and editing GIS data, and web-based access tools.
Coordinates bug fixing and maintenance effort, alignment of PostGIS with PostgreSQL releases, windows build, integration of new GEOS functionality, and new function enhancements.
Release Manager, coordinates general direction of the project, often gets his hands dirty doing real coding.
Ongoing maintenance and development of core functions.
Documentation, Hudson automated build, advanced user support on PostGIS newsgroup.
Bug fixes and maintenance and integration of new GEOS functionality
General development
The original developer of PostGIS. Dave wrote the server side objects, index bindings, and many of the server side analytical functions.
Original development of the Shape file loader/dumper.
In alphabetical order: Alex Bodnaru, Alex Mayrhofer, Barbara Phillipot, Ben Jubb, Bernhard Reiter, Bruce Rindahl, Bruno Wolff III, Carl Anderson, Charlie Savage, Dane Springmeyer, David Skea, David Techer, Eduin Carrillo, IIDA Tetsushi, Geographic Data BC, Gerald Fenoy, Gino Lucrezi, Klaus Foerster, Kris Jurka, Mark Sondheim, Markus Schaber, Michael Fuhr, Nikita Shulga, Norman Vine, Olivier Courtin, Ralph Mason, Regina Obe, Steffen Macke, Stephen Frost.
The GEOS geometry operations library, and the algorithmic work of Martin Davis in making it all work, ongoing maintenance and support of Mateusz Loskot, Paul Ramsey and others.
The Proj4 cartographic projection library, and the work of Gerald Evenden and Frank Warmerdam in creating and maintaining it.
The latest software, documentation and news items are available at the PostGIS web site, http://postgis.refractions.net.
More information about the GEOS geometry operations library is available at http://geos.osgeo.org/.
More information about the Proj4 reprojection library is available at http://proj.osgeo.org.
More information about the PostgreSQL database server is available at the PostgreSQL main site http://www.postgresql.org.
More information about GiST indexing is available at the PostgreSQL GiST development site, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist.
More information about MapServer internet map server is available at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu.
The "Simple Features for Specification for SQL" is available at the OpenGIS Consortium web site: http://www.opengis.org.