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# Acknowledgements and Credits

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

## Sponsorship

ER Mapper has generously provided ongoing primary sponsorship for GDAL since February 2005 to support work on GDAL improvement efforts not focused on any particular client project.

## 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.

## Corporate

- Applied Coherent Technologies: Supported implementation of the GDAL contour generator, as well as various improvements to HDF drivers.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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

- i-cubed: Supported the MrSID driver.

- Intergraph: Supported development of the Erdas Imagine driver.

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

- 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.

- 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.

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

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