Carbon Project Announces Success at First Open-Geospatial .NET Development Workshop
Washington, DC, April 21, 2005 -- The Carbon Project today announced that attendees from multiple organizations successfully completed the world’s first training course to focus on applied Open-Geospatial Development. The course, Fundamentals of Open-Geospatial Development, was held on April 12-13 at Intergraph in Reston, Virginia.
The training leveraged a new free geospatial development toolkit, CarbonTools™, to teach attendees how to rapidly develop open-geospatial applications and access hundreds of online geospatial 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 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.”
The next Open-Geospatial Development workshop is scheduled for July 13-14, 2005 at 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. Prospective students are encouraged to visit www.CarbonTools.com to download and try CarbonTools before the class. Open-Geospatial Development training can also be delivered as an “in-house” workshop to educate project teams and staff on open-geospatial fundamentals. Open-Geospatial Development training course notes and exercises are available for purchase on CD-ROM. For more information please contact info@geoleaders.com.
About The Carbon ProjectThe 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 visit www.TheCarbonProject.com.
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