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 ## Acknowledgement
 
-GeoSaprk makes use of JTS Plus (An extended JTS Topology Suite Version 1.14) for some geometrical computations.
+GeoSpark makes use of JTS Plus (An extended JTS Topology Suite Version 1.14) for some geometrical computations.
 
 Please refer to [JTS Topology Suite website](http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/main.html) and [JTS Plus](https://github.com/jiayuasu/JTSplus) for more details.