Aurora, Colo., March 21, 2006—GeoWeb 2006 is pleased to announce that Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif.; Laser-Scan, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Oracle, Redwood Shores, Calif.; Safe Software, Surrey, British Columbia; and LizardTech, Seattle, Wash., have become GeoWeb 2006 Conference sponsors along with platinum sponsor, Microsoft of Redmond, Wash

GeoWeb 2006 will be held July 24-28, 2006, at the Morris J. Wosk Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. The conference is the only event focused exclusively on the convergence of XML, Web services, and geographic information systems.

 Google has agreed to be a gold sponsor, and Laser-Scan, Oracle, and Safe Software are silver sponsors. LizardTech is a coffee break and bag insert sponsor. Conference organizer Galdos Systems Inc. and conference supporter the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) are looking for more companies to add to the list of well-known sponsors, as many opportunities are still available. Details on those opportunities can be found at www.geoweb.org/2006/sponsorship.asp.

 “The companies sponsoring GeoWeb 2006 are some of the main players in the convergence of GIS and the Internet, and that’s important for what we’re trying to accomplish with this conference,” said Bob Samborski, Executive Director of GITA. “We’re very happy to have their support.”

 Google will present two half-day workshops during the first two days of the conference—Google Maps Mashups on Monday, July 24, and Google Earth and KML on Tuesday, July 25. Michael Jones, CTO, Google Earth, will also provide his insight as a conference keynoter. Oracle will present Introduction to JDeveloper and Oracle AS MapViewer on Tuesday, July 25. Microsoft will put on two half-day workshops on Tuesday, July 25—Introduction to MapPoint in the morning and Introduction to Virtual Earth in the afternoon. Stephen Lawler, general manager of the Virtual Earth Business Unit at Microsoft Corp., will also keynote at the conference.

 For more information about GeoWeb 2006, please visit www.geoweb.org, or e-mail .
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GeoWeb 2006 is a landmark event about unleashing the economic potential associated with the convergence of XML, Web services, and geographic information systems. Organized by Galdos Systems Inc. with support from the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA), GeoWeb 2006 welcomes both public and private organizations to meet, discuss, and learn about today’s most innovative geospatial technologies. The conference will include dedicated workshops on Geography Markup Language (GML), KML, MapPoint, LandXML, SVG, ebRIM, and OGC Web Services for GIS.