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GMU Wins Open Geospatial Design Competition

Washington, DC, January 10, 2005 -- geoLeaders, an international network of partners promoting interoperable geospatial solutions in the GIS marketplace, announced today that the Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology and Standards (LAITS) at George Mason University (GMU) has been selected as the winner of the 2004 Carbon Cup Open Geospatial Design Competition.

"The GMU LAITS submission combined an imaginative use of the CarbonTools Toolkit with a high level of sophistication, usability and interoperability," said Nuke Goldstein, Founder of The Carbon Project. "We were also impressed by LAITS's combination of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) WMS, WFS and the new Catalog Services Specification. The LAITS architecture also demonstrated a truly innovative application which not only brought together multiple OGC Specifications and CarbonTools, but also integrated with the Google search engine."

The Carbon Cup is an international competition to promote design of a new class of innovative geospatial solutions. These applications use modern software development systems like Microsoft Visual Studio, the CarbonTools software development toolkit and leading edge standards for geospatial interoperability from the OGC to provide innovative geospatial solutions. The competition is open to both students and professionals and calls for design and development of innovative geospatial applications to meet key geospatial information sharing and integration challenges. To learn more, visit http://www.geoleaders.com/winner.html.

The Carbon Project's vision is to create a community of practice for open geospatial development by sharing source code and providing free software for the benefit of the global geospatial community. As a product of the Carbon Project, along with the popular free viewer Gaia, CarbonTools is a "developers toolkit" for OGC-based geospatial interoperability. More information on The Carbon Project is available at www.TheCarbonProject.com.

geoLeaders is a global, collaborative distribution network of partners with the objective of promoting interoperable geospatial enterprise solutions in the GIS marketplace. Through its Partner Network, geoLeaders works to provide new business opportunities for all providers of open standards-based geospatial technology products. For information on geoLeaders or to join the geoLeaders Partner Network visit www.geoleaders.com.

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