Frank Warmerdam

Norman Frank Warmerdam is a software developer with a focus on remote 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 or GDAL. He is also a founding member, director and the treasurer of the Open 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 of FOSS projects like GRASS GIS, MapServer, Proj.4, libLAS, libtiff and many others. Many of the open source GIS programs and libraries are available in the FWTools bundle (named after his initials) for Linux and Microsoft Windows.
In 2005, Frank received the Sol Katz GFOSS Award.
Frank now works for Googlemaps team in California.

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