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$Revision: 1.17.2.5 $
$Date: 2007/07/31 15:56:31 $
$Author: dietrick $

People and organizations that have contributed to OpenMap
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OpenMap(tm)
  The OpenMap group at BBN Technologies mailto:openmap@bbn.com
  See the file LICENSE, OpenMap is a trademark of BBN Corporation

Icon Collection
  Dean Jones mailto:dean@gallant.com
  Icons Copyright (C) 1998 by Dean S. Jones
  http://www.gallant.com/icons.htm

RPF Browse
  The MITRE Corporation
  Portions of the RPF Layer are derived with permission from
  software provided by The MITRE Corporation. Those portions
  are licensed by MITRE under one or more agreements to use
  and, where authorized, sublicense the program, and are
  copyright 1993 by The MITRE Corporation. 
  "Copyright (c) 1993 The MITRE Corporation. RPF Browse is
  used with the permission of The MITRE Corporation."

Erhard "ESchemainda"
  Provided code fixing the SunPosition class to account for daylight
  savings time correctly.

Alexander Sokolov
  Provided code fixing the DTEDFrameUtil class to correctly create the
  DTED frame names for all latitudes and longitudes.

Joe Warzecha 
  Provided changes to BufferedMapBean.java to speed up
  refresh and fixed a NullPointerException when its used in a
  JInternalFrame.

Dan Schmitt (dan@computer.org)
  of the Ranching Systems Group (http://cnrit.tamu.edu/rsg/) provided 
  the nexrad package, which displays nexrad rain data.  He wrote the 
  LabelLayer, and subclassed the DateLayer to it.  He also wrote the mapIt
  example, which starts up the ImageServer to create an image.

Michael Los
  Provided the AbstractHandlerLocation idea, code and prodding.  Also
  submitted changes to the quadtree to make it serializable.

Willie Macris
  Provided a update which greatly lessoned the memory requirements of 
  the RpfCacheHandler, and helped out with the garbage collection.

Ringo Wathelet (DSTO in Australia)
  Provided the DistanceMouseMode.

Paul Tomblin
  Provided a fix for the quadtree rectangle test for bounds checking.

David Gillespie (formerly from General Dynamics)
  Provided fixes for a memory leak in the DTEDLayer and DTEDFrameCache.

Colin Mummery
  Ported the code from Chuck Gantz (chuck.gantz@globalstar.com) to
create the UTMPoint class, which translates UTM coordinates to decimal
degree lat/lons.  Also created the DMSLatLonPoint, which represents
lat/lons in degrees, minutes, and seconds.  Also contributed the mif
package that reads MIF files.

Doug Van Auken
  Provided a complete package that reads and writes ESRI Shape files (.shp, .ssx, and .dbf).

Karl Stuempfle and Lonnie Goad working for OptiMetrics, Inc
  Provided the code to convert OMGraphicList graphics to ESRI Shape files.
  Provided EsriPlugIn GUI/selection modifications.

Scott Nevin
  Added code to the MIFLayer to allow to read more graphic types.

Oliver Hinds
  Added code to provide a preview panel in OMColorChooser, that lets you see what the color will look like with the current transparency setting.

Eliot Lebsack
   Provided a couple of new classes:
com.bbn.openmap.layer.shape.ShapeFileCrop, can create a new Shape file
with shapes from a certain area of another Shape file, and
com.bbn.openmap.gui.SaveAsVirtualImageMenuItem, which lets you set the
size of an image to create from the current map.

Bart J. Geraci
  Provided an update to the OMArrowHead, greatly improving the rendering/positioning of them.

Thomas Paricaud
  Provided the E00 Layer package, enabling the display of .e00 files.

Eric Lepicier
  Provided OMSpline classes and support for editing and decorating them.

Bart Jourquin
  Provided the MapBeanPrinter.

David J. Ward
  Provided the ScaleDisplayLayer.

Uwe Baier
  Provided the com.bbn.openmap.layer.mysql package.

Simon Bowen
  Added code to the MIFLayer package to speed up OMGraphicCreation,
  and to handle scale filtering.  Added support for TEXT and POINT
  primatives.

Dan Bitts
  Provided the EditableOMScalingRaster classes.
  
Land Software Engineering Centre for DND Canada
  Provided extensive review and fixes for the MGRS Conversion algorithm.
  
Sebastien Rosset of Cougaar Software
  Provided several patchs to improve the roads package, add arrow support for OMPoly, J3D API updates. 
  
Tore Halset
  Provided the WMS layer and servlet code and various improvements to support those additions.

Todd Webb of L-3 Communications Titan Corporation
  Provided updates to the SwingWorker, OMGraphicHandlerLayer and ProjectionSupport that greatly increased
  the thread safety and interruptions due to rapid Projection changes.
  
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Thank you!

If we've left you off this list - Sorry!  Let us know - it's important
that we give credit where it's due.  We really appreciate that people
take the time to submit code to us.
