Carbon Project Continues Success at Second Open-Geospatial .NET Development Workshop
Washington, DC, August 19, 2005 -- The Carbon Project today announced that attendees from multiple organizations successfully completed another session of the world’s first training course to focus on applied Open-Geospatial Development. The course, Fundamentals of Open-Geospatial Development with CarbonTools, was held on August 9-10 at Intergraph in Reston, Virginia.
"I really enjoyed the Open-Geospatial Development course. The instructors were not only personable but very knowledgeable. I especially enjoyed learning how powerful geospatial applications can be built very quickly. I highly recommend this class to anyone who currently works with or plans to work with geospatial information," said Scott Mitchell, George Mason University graduate student.
The training leveraged the free open-geospatial development toolkit, CarbonTools™, to teach attendees how to rapidly develop 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, Inc. (OGC™) specifications including GML, OGC’s XML encoding for geospatial information.
The next Open-Geospatial Development workshop is scheduled for mid-November 2005. 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 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 for more information. Prospective students are encouraged to visit www.TheCarbonPortal.net to join the Open-Geospatial .NET community at no cost and try CarbonTools before the class. For students that cannot travel to workshop locations, all notes, course exercises and sample code are available on an easy-to-use CD-ROM. For more information please contact info@geoleaders.com.
The Carbon Project is a Microsoft Certified Partner that pioneers innovative geospatial 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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