postgis/CREDITS
Mark Leslie aafad47213 Added the distance_sphere function to calculate the distance between two points
on an earth-sized sphere using an algorithm implemented by Bruno Wolff III.
Added the postgresql loader function.


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CREDITS: 2004/09/10
The core team of PostGIS is from Refractions Research:
Sandro Santilli, Paul Ramsey, Jeff Lounsbury and Chris Hodgson.
All versions include substantial contributions from the
core team.
VERSION SPECIFIC CREDITS:
Version 0.1 of PostGIS was developed by Refractions Research Inc, of Victora,
British Columbia, Canada (http://www.refractions.net), as a research project
into using PostgreSQL as a geospatial data-store. The following staff
participated in the project:
Sandro Santilli - Maintenance and core programming (the new stuff)
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.
Version 0.2 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
Norman Vine on CygWin compilation issues
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 0.7 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 0.8 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 0.9 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