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<chapter>
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>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.</para>
<sect1 id="psc">
<title>Project Steering Committee</title>
<para>
The PostGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) coordinates the general direction,
release cycles, documentation, and outreach efforts for the PostGIS project. In addition
the PSC provides general user support, accepts and approves patches from the general PostGIS community
and votes on miscellaneous issues involving PostGIS such as developer commit access, new PSC members
or significant API changes.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Mark Cave-Ayland</term>
<listitem>
<para>Coordinates bug fixing and maintenance effort, alignment of
PostGIS with PostgreSQL releases, spatial index selectivity and binding, windows production builds, integration of new
GEOS functionality, and new function enhancements.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Paul Ramsey</term>
<listitem>
<para>Co-founder of PostGIS project. General bug fixing, geography support, GEOS functionality integration and alignment with
GEOS releases.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Kevin Neufeld</term>
<listitem>
<para>Documentation, Hudson automated build, advanced user support
on PostGIS newsgroup, and postgis maintenance function enhancements.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Regina Obe</term>
<listitem>
<para>Documentation, general user support on PostGIS newsgroup, windows production and experimental builds, and
smoke testing new functionality or major code changes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="credits">
<title>Contributors Past and Present</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Sandro Santilli</term>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes and maintenance and integration of new GEOS
functionality. WKT Raster support.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Dave Blasby</term>
<listitem>
<para>The original developer/Co-founder of PostGIS. Dave wrote the server side
objects, index bindings, and many of the server side analytical
functions.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Jeff Lounsbury</term>
<listitem>
<para>Original development of the Shape file loader/dumper. Current PostGIS Project Owner representative.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Mark Leslie</term>
<listitem>
<para>Ongoing maintenance and development of core functions. Enhanced curve support.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Olivier Courtin</term>
<listitem>
<para>Input output XML (KML,GML)/GeoJSON functions and bug fixes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Pierre Racine</term>
<listitem>
<para>WKT Raster overall architecture and programming support</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Mateusz Loskot</term>
<listitem>
<para>WKT Raster support</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Chris Hodgson</term>
<listitem>
<para>General development</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Nicklas Avén</term>
<listitem>
<para>Distance function enhancements and additions, Windows testing, and general user support</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Jorge Arevalo</term>
<listitem>
<para>WKT Raster development</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Stephen Frost</term>
<listitem>
<para>Tiger geocoder development</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Other contributors</term>
<listitem>
<para>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, George Silva, Geographic Data BC,
Gerald Fenoy, Gino Lucrezi, Greg Stark, Guillaume Lelarge, Klaus Foerster, Kris Jurka, Mark
Sondheim, Markus Schaber, Maxime Guillaud, Maxime van Noppen, Michael Fuhr, Nikita Shulga, Norman Vine,
Ralph Mason, Steffen Macke, Vincent Picavet</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Important Support Libraries</term>
<listitem>
<para>The <ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/">GEOS</ulink>
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.</para>
<para>The <ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/">Proj4</ulink>
cartographic projection library, and the work of Gerald Evenden and
Frank Warmerdam in creating and maintaining it.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>More Information</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The latest software, documentation and news items are available
at the PostGIS web site, <ulink
url="http://postgis.refractions.net">http://postgis.refractions.net</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>More information about the GEOS geometry operations library is
available at<ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/">
http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>More information about the Proj4 reprojection library is
available at <ulink
url="http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/">http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>More information about the PostgreSQL database server is
available at the PostgreSQL main site <ulink
url="http://www.postgresql.org">http://www.postgresql.org</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>More information about GiST indexing is available at the
PostgreSQL GiST development site, <ulink
url="http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/">http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>More information about MapServer internet map server is
available at <ulink
url="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The "<ulink
url="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs">Simple Features for
Specification for SQL</ulink>" is available at the OpenGIS Consortium
web site: <ulink
url="http://www.opengeospatial.org/">http://www.opengeospatial.org/</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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