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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.
Coordinates all bug fixing and maintainance effort, integration of new GEOS functionality, and new function enhancements.
Maintains new functions and the 7.2 index bindings.
Maintains the JDBC objects and keeps track of the documentation and packaging.
Original development of the Shape file loader/dumper.
The original developer of PostGIS. Dave wrote the server side objects, index bindings, and many of the server side analytical functions.
The latest software, documentation and news items are available at the PostGIS web site, http://postgis.refractions.net.
More information about the GEOS geometry operations library is available at http://geos.refractions.net.
More information about the Proj4 reprojection library is available at http://www.remotesensing.org/proj.
More information about the PostgreSQL database server is available at the PostgreSQL main site http://www.postgresql.org.
More information about GiST indexing is available at the PostgreSQL GiST development site, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist.
More information about Mapserver internet map server is available at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu.
The "Simple Features for Specification for SQL" is available at the OpenGIS Consortium web site: http://www.opengis.org.