[postgis-commits] svn - r2964 - branches/1.3/doc
postgis-commits at postgis.refractions.net
postgis-commits at postgis.refractions.net
Mon Sep 15 18:30:32 PDT 2008
Author: robe
Date: 2008-09-15 18:30:31 -0700 (Mon, 15 Sep 2008)
New Revision: 2964
Modified:
branches/1.3/doc/postgis.xml
Log:
updated intro - credits (very complacent folk, nobody voiced an objection), more info links
Modified: branches/1.3/doc/postgis.xml
===================================================================
--- branches/1.3/doc/postgis.xml 2008-09-15 11:54:29 UTC (rev 2963)
+++ branches/1.3/doc/postgis.xml 2008-09-16 01:30:31 UTC (rev 2964)
@@ -34,147 +34,157 @@
</bookinfo>
<chapter>
- <title>Introduction</title>
+ <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="credits">
+ <title>Credits</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Mark Cave-Ayland</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Coordinates bug fixing and maintenance effort, alignment of PostGIS with PostgreSQL releases, windows build, integration
+ of new GEOS functionality, and new function enhancements.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Paul Ramsey</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Release Manager, coordinates general direction of the project,
+ often gets his hands dirty doing real coding.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Mark Leslie</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ongoing maintenance and development of core functions.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Kevin Neufeld</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Documentation, Hudson automated build, advanced user support on PostGIS newsgroup.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Sandro Santilli</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Bug fixes and maintenance and integration of new GEOS functionality</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Chris Hodgson</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>General development</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Dave Blasby</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The original developer 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.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Other contributors</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>In alphabetical order: Alex Bodnaru, Alex Mayrhofer, Bruce
+ Rindahl, Bernhard Reiter, Bruno Wolff III, Carl Anderson, Charlie
+ Savage, Dane Springmeyer, David Skea, David Techer, 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.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Important Support Libraries</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The <ulink url="http://geos.osgeo.org/">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://proj.osgeo.org">Proj4</ulink>
+ cartographic projection library, and the work of Gerald Evenden and
+ Frank Warmerdam in creating and maintaining it.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect1>
- <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="credits">
- <title>Credits</title>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Sandro Santilli <strk at refractions.net></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Coordinates all bug fixing and maintenance effort,
- integration of new GEOS functionality, and new function
- enhancements.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Mark Leslie <mleslie at refractions.net></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Ongoing maintenance and development of core functions.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Chris Hodgson <chodgson at refractions.net></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Maintains new functions and the 7.2 index bindings.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Keeps track of the documentation and packaging.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Jeff Lounsbury <jeffloun at refractions.net></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Original development of the Shape file loader/dumper.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Dave Blasby <dblasby at gmail.com></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The original developer of PostGIS. Dave wrote the server
- side objects, index bindings, and many of the server side
- analytical functions.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Other contributors</term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In alphabetical order: Alex Bodnaru, Alex Mayrhofer, Bruce
- Rindahl, Bernhard Reiter, Bruno Wolff III, Carl Anderson, Charlie
- Savage, David Skea, David Techer, IIDA Tetsushi, Geographic Data
- BC, Gerald Fenoy, Gino Lucrezi, Klaus Foerster, Kris Jurka, Mark
- Cave-Ayland, Mark Sondheim, Markus Schaber, Michael Fuhr, Nikita
- Shulga, Norman Vine, Olivier Courtin, Ralph Mason, Steffen Macke.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Important Support Libraries</term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The <ulink url="http://geos.refractions.net">GEOS</ulink>
- geometry operations library, and the algorithmic work of Martin
- Davis <mbdavis at vividsolutions.com> of Vivid Solutions in
- making it all work.</para>
-
- <para>The <ulink url="http://proj4.maptools.org">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://geos.refractions.net">
- http://geos.refractions.net</ulink>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>More information about the Proj4 reprojection library is
- available at <ulink url="http://www.remotesensing.org/proj">http://www.remotesensing.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.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf">Simple
- Features for Specification for SQL</ulink>" is available at the
- OpenGIS Consortium web site: <ulink url="http://www.opengis.org">http://www.opengis.org</ulink>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </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://geos.osgeo.org/">
+ http://geos.osgeo.org/</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>More information about the Proj4 reprojection library is
+ available at <ulink
+ url="http://proj.osgeo.org">http://proj.osgeo.org</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.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf">Simple
+ Features for Specification for SQL</ulink>" is available at the
+ OpenGIS Consortium web site: <ulink
+ url="http://www.opengis.org">http://www.opengis.org</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter>
More information about the postgis-commits
mailing list