Project Details
Project Members
Walter Sinclair: Walter wrote the C command line program and authored the program’s documentation. For his day job, Walter is the co-owner of two independent books stores in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dead Write is a book store that specializes in crime and detective books, while White Dwarf is a store that specializes in science fiction and fantasy. One way to indirectly help the PAGC project is to consider ordering your next mystery, science fiction, or fantasy book from Walter through www.deadwrite.com. Dead Write and White Dwarf ship worldwide.
Dan Putler: Dan is primarily responsible for developing test cases and testing PAGC. In addition, he maintains the PAGC web site, writes tutorials, and helps to market the project. In his day job, Dan is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Sauder School of Business, the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver.
Zed Shaw: Zed frequently provides a helping hand in PAGC project administration. What Zed really is these days is a Ruby web application guru. To that end, he is the creator and principal developer of the Mongrel web server. In addition, he is co-author of the book Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications. In addition to his book, you can read Zed’s musings on Mongrel, Ruby, and a lot more at his web site, www.zedshaw.com.
Frank Warmerdam: Frank joined the PAGC project to help work on turning Walter’s command line program into a C library. Open source software is Frank’s day job. He is the principal developer of GDAL/OGR, ShapeLib (which is used extensively in PAGC), Proj.4, and a primary developer of OpenEV. In addition, Frank is the President of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Dave Sampson: Dave is mainly responsible for marketing the project and writing tutorials. Professionally, Dave is a GIS Specialist at Natural Resources Canada. He is also the co-founder of the Ottawa GRASS GIS Users Group, and is heavily involved in several public geodata creation efforts.
Thank Yous
Liza Blaney (the Queen of gdb) helped in some of PAGC’s debugging and created the first Microsoft Windows build of PAGC in Visual C++. Since that initial build, the Windows build has been migrated to MinGW.
Tim Sutton of the QGIS Project and the Thuban Project team for addressing issues related to the display of some PAGC matched shape files due to the existance of NULL coordinates that occur when an address cannot be matched.
Brian Klinkenberg of the UBC Department of Geography, who introduced Walter and Dan to one another after Dan asked Brian if he knew a programmer who had the skills required to develop an address geocoder for Linux.
The Social Sciences and Hummanties Council of Canada for funding the initial development of PAGC through a grant to Dan on geodemographic market analysis.
