- Frank Warmerdam
Frank Warmerdam is an independent
software developer with a focus onremote sensing ,geographic information system ,cartography , and development of geospatial data translators. He is best known in the GIS community as the author of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library orGDAL . He is also a founding member, director and the initial president of theOpen Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).Frank Warmerdam lives near Eganville,
Ontario ,Canada . He graduated in 1991 and worked for PCI (now PCI Geomatics) until 1998. Since then he works as a contract developer focusing on extending Geospatial Free and Open Source Software projects.He is the main author of the
GDAL library and of the companion OGR Simple Features Library. He also participates in the development of an impressive number ofFOSS projects likeGRASS GIS ,MapServer , [http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/ Proj.4] and many others. Many of theopen source GIS programs and libraries are available in theFWTools bundle (named after his initials) forLinux andMicrosoft Windows .In 2005, Frank received the
Sol Katz GFOSS Award. [cite web | title = Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software | publisher = OSGeo Foundation | url = https://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/solkatz/index.html | accessdate = 2007-07-13 ]References
External links
* [http://home.gdal.org/~warmerda/personal.html Warmerdam's home page]
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