touchup, alphabetize, and convert AUTHORS to markdown - what an awesome list of contributors so far

AUTHORS

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-# $Id: AUTHORS 746 2008-09-24 dane $
+## Mapnik Contibutors
 
-Committers
-==========
+Mapnik was written by Artem Pavlenko with contributions from:
 
- - Artem Pavlenko <artem.mapnik -at- gmail.com>
- - Lucio Asnaghi (OGR, Oracle, SQLite plugins)
- - Jon Burgess (Core)
- - Jean-Francois Doyon (Python API, OGCServer) <jfdoyon -at- gmail.com>
- - Dominic Hargreaves (Stable releases)
- - Hermann Kraus (MetaWriters)
- - Tom Hughes (Cairo)
- - Carlos López (SVG Renderer)
- - Ben Moores (PDF branch)
- - Marcin Rudowski (graphics)
- - David Siegel (XML)
- - Vince Spader (TextSymbolizer)
- - Dane Springmeyer (Python API, SCons) <dane.springmeyer -at- gmail.com>
- - David Leaver (Label Placement)
- - Alberto Valverde (GlyphSymbolizer, Python API)
- - Andreas Volz (Autotools)
- - Nick Whitelegg (OSM plugin)
-
-Patches
-=======
-
- - Andy Allen
- - AJ Ashton
- - Justin Bronn
- - Christopher Brown
- - Toby Collet
- - Robert Coup
- - Berteun Damman
- - Craig de Stigter
- - David Eastcott
- - Krzysztof Godlewski
- - Beau Gunderson
- - John Hague
- - Aubrey Holland
- - Konstantin Käfer
- - Mak Kolybabi
- - Peter Körner
- - Stella Laurenzo
- - Dennis Luxen
- - Tom MacWright
- - Michal Migurski
- - Andrii Mishkovskyi
- - Dražen Odobašić
- - Martijn van Oosterhout
- - Cameron Patrick
- - Igor Podolskiy
- - Reid Priedhorsky
- - Brian Quinion
- - Christopher Schmidt
- - Andreas Schneider
- - Vincent Schut
- - Ehud Shabtai
- - Steve Singer
- - Paul Smith
- - Philipp Spitzer
- - Dave Stubbs
- - River Tarnell
- - Oliver Tonnhofer
- - Lennard voor den Dag
- - Shaun Walbridge
- - Leslie Wu
-  
-Community Wiki
-==============
-
- - http://trac.mapnik.org/stractistics
+Andy Allen
+AJ Ashton
+Lucio Asnaghi
+Justin Bronn
+Christopher Brown
+Jon Burgess
+Toby Collet
+Robert Coup
+Berteun Damman
+Craig de Stigter 
+Jean-Francois Doyon
+David Eastcott
+Krzysztof Godlewski
+Beau Gunderson
+John Hague
+Dominic Hargreaves
+Aubrey Holland
+Tom Hughes
+Konstantin Käfer
+Mak Kolybabi
+Peter Körner
+Hermann Kraus
+Stella Laurenzo
+David Leaver
+Carlos López
+Dennis Luxen
+Tom MacWright
+Michal Migurski
+Andrii Mishkovskyi
+Ben Moores
+Dražen Odobašić
+Cameron Patrick
+Igor Podolskiy
+Reid Priedhorsky
+Brian Quinion
+Marcin Rudowski
+Christopher Schmidt
+Andreas Schneider
+Vincent Schut
+Ehud Shabtai
+David Siegel
+Steve Singer
+Paul Smith
+Vince Spader
+Philipp Spitzer
+Dane Springmeyer
+Dave Stubbs
+River Tarnell
+Oliver Tonnhofer
+Alberto Valverde
+Martijn van Oosterhout 
+Andreas Volz
+Lennard voor den Dag
+Shaun Walbridge
+Nick Whitelegg
+Leslie Wu

AUTHORS.md

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+## Mapnik Contibutors
+
+Mapnik was written by Artem Pavlenko with contributions from:
+
+Andy Allen
+AJ Ashton
+Lucio Asnaghi
+Justin Bronn
+Christopher Brown
+Jon Burgess
+Toby Collet
+Robert Coup
+Berteun Damman
+Craig de Stigter 
+Jean-Francois Doyon
+David Eastcott
+Krzysztof Godlewski
+Beau Gunderson
+John Hague
+Dominic Hargreaves
+Aubrey Holland
+Tom Hughes
+Konstantin Käfer
+Mak Kolybabi
+Peter Körner
+Hermann Kraus
+Stella Laurenzo
+David Leaver
+Carlos López
+Dennis Luxen
+Tom MacWright
+Michal Migurski
+Andrii Mishkovskyi
+Ben Moores
+Ben Moores
+Dražen Odobašić
+Cameron Patrick
+Igor Podolskiy
+Reid Priedhorsky
+Brian Quinion
+Marcin Rudowski
+Christopher Schmidt
+Andreas Schneider
+Vincent Schut
+Ehud Shabtai
+David Siegel
+Steve Singer
+Paul Smith
+Vince Spader
+Philipp Spitzer
+Dane Springmeyer
+Dave Stubbs
+River Tarnell
+Oliver Tonnhofer
+Alberto Valverde
+Martijn van Oosterhout 
+Andreas Volz
+Lennard voor den Dag
+Shaun Walbridge
+Nick Whitelegg
+Leslie Wu