CREDITS: 2011/02/24

The core team of PostGIS is:
 
 mcayland (Mark Cave-Ayland) <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk> - psc, index support, PostgreSQL/PostGIS integration issues
 chodgson (Chris Hodgson) - psc, core website maintenance, postgis core bug fixes, build bot, osgeo incubation management
 pramsey (Paul Ramsey) <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca> - psc, chair, index, geodetic, infrastructure, shapefile gui loader
 robe (Regina Obe) <lr@pcorp.us> - psc, documentation, windows experimental and production builds, 
   QA testing, plpgsql functions
 strk (Sandro Santilli) <strk@keybit.net> - GEOS integration, topology, raster
 kneufeld (Kevin Neufeld) - prior psc, documentation, plpgsql functions, document and buildbot, website administration (past)
 colivier (Olivier Courtin) <olivier.courtin@camptocamp.com> - output functions, 3D support
 pracine (Pierre Racine) <Pierre.Racine@sbf.ulaval.ca> - raster
 jorgearevalo (Jorge Arévalo) <jorge.arevalo at deimos-space.com> - raster 
 mleslie (Mark Leslie) <mark.leslie@lisasoft.com> - curve support, shp2pgsql gui loader 
 nicklas (Nicklas Avén) <nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no> - measurement functions (2D and 3D)
 mloskot (Mateusz Loskot) - raster
 dustymugs (Bborie Park) bkpark at ucdavis.edu - raster 

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 recent contributor credits and versions.

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 with -k switch for pgsql2shp (for City of Boston (DND) ).

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.