Frank Warmerdam
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Frank Warmerdam is an independent software developer with a focus on Remote Sensing, GIS and Cartography, specialized in the development of geospatial data translators. He is best known in the GIS community as the author of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library GDAL.
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 Open Source GDAL library and of the companion OGR Simple Features Library. He also participates in the development of an impressive number of FOSS projects like GRASS GIS, MapServer, Proj.4 and many others.
He won the 2005 edition of the Sol Katz GFOSS Award.
Frank is a founding member, director and the initial president of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
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[edit] External links
- Warmerdam's home page
- GDAL project page
- OSGeo[[Category:Living people|Warmerdam}
