diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 97fb6ce05..d5d30a0ea 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ authors = [
     "Alex Morega <alex@grep.ro>",
     "Johannes Drönner <droenner@informatik.uni-marburg.de>",
 ]
+categories = ["science::geo", "api-bindings"]
 repository = "https://github.com/georust/gdal"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.58"
diff --git a/gdal-sys/Cargo.toml b/gdal-sys/Cargo.toml
index 8ead7c63a..9c987c77d 100644
--- a/gdal-sys/Cargo.toml
+++ b/gdal-sys/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 version = "0.8.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/georust/gdal"
 authors = ["Johannes Drönner <droenner@informatik.uni-marburg.de>"]
+categories = ["science::geo", "api-bindings"]
 edition = "2018"
 rust-version = "1.58"
 links="gdal"