CREDITS: 2009/07/01

The core team of PostGIS is:
 
 Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>
 Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca>
 Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us>
 Kevin Neufeld <kneufeld@refractions.net>
 Olivier Courtin <olivier.courtin@camptocamp.com>
 Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>

All versions include substantial contributions from the 
core team.


VERSION SPECIFIC CREDITS:

PostGIS was originally developed by Refractions Research Inc, of Victora, 
British Columbia, Canada (http://www.refractions.net), as a project 
in using PostgreSQL as a geospatial data-store. Refractions continues to
provide hosting and infrastructure support to the project. 

The following is a partial list of contributors who have participated 
in the project:

See the postgis manual and the ChangeLog for more contributors.

Version 1.2.1 of PostGIS includes patches from:
  Eduin Carrillo <yecarrillo@cas.gov.co> for AsKML() and Transform() 
  short circuit.

Version 1.1.0 of PostGIS includes patches from:
  Obe, Regina <robe.dnd@cityofboston.gov> with -k switch for pgsql2shp.

Version 1.0.0 of PostGIS includes code from:
  Mark Cave-Ayland <m.cave-ayland@webbased.co.uk> with new positional
        operators, join estimator and general testing and support.
  Markus Schaber <markus@schabi.de> author of the jdbc2 interface

Version 0.9 of PostGIS includes patches from:
  Klaus Foerster <klaus@svg.cc> on AsSVG()
  Olivier Courtin <pnine@free.fr> on AsSVG()
  Bruno Wolff III on the distance_sphere algorithm

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 0.7 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 0.5 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 0.2 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
  Norman Vine on CygWin compilation issues

Version 0.1 of PostGIS included constributions from:
  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.


