Washington, DC, June 6, 2005 -- The Carbon Project today announced it is providing a second session of its successful training course for professionals and students who want to quickly learn the basics of open-geospatial development.

Fundamentals of Open-Geospatial Development teaches attendees how to use CarbonTools™, a free geospatial development toolkit, to rapidly develop open-geospatial applications and access hundreds of online resources. Based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, CarbonTools™ provides a powerful and extendible API for accessing geospatial web services based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC™) specifications.

“The first Open-Geospatial Development course was excellent!” says Kelly Falter, VP Research and Development, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “I came into the class as a novice in the area of OGC and left with the ability to develop a fairly functional application in a matter of a few hours.  Also, The Carbon Project is ‘The Real Thing’ when it comes to understanding geospatial information.  These guys have worked in this area for many years and have invested a lot of resources into providing the OGC community with tools that did not previously exist.  I highly recommend this class to anyone (novice through expert) in the field who currently works with or plans to work with geospatial information.”

This session of Fundamentals of Open-Geospatial Development will be held on July 13-14, 2005 and hosted by Intergraph in Reston, Virginia. Topics to be covered include: an introduction to open-geospatial interoperability, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the CarbonTools source-handler-data™ architecture; hands-on exercises to use Geography Markup Language (GML) and OGC services from Intergraph, IONIC, CubeWerx and others; how to rapidly build an air-traffic control simulation using open-geospatial techniques and many others.

Please visit www.geoleaders.com/training.htm to register now or send an email to get more information.  Prospective students are encouraged to visit www.CarbonTools.com to download and try the beta version of CarbonTools 2 before the class.

About The Carbon Project

The Carbon Project provides innovative geospatial and mapping solutions and aspires to make the world of geospatial information accessible and usable to everyone. For more information please visit www.TheCarbonProject.com.

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