.NET Company, The Carbon Project, Selected to Develop Information Sharing Application

The Carbon Project, the world leader in Open-Geospatial .NET technology, announced that it has been selected for a federal grant to develop an easy-to-use application that accesses online geographic data services and allows users to seamlessly share event-specific location content. The application will be freely available and tailored to the needs of the incident response and recovery community.

Burlington, MA (PRWEB) April 17, 2006 -- The Carbon Project, the world leader in Open-Geospatial .NET technology, announced that it has been selected for a grant from the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) to develop an easy-to-use application that accesses online geographic data services and allows users to seamlessly share event-specific location content. The application will be freely available and tailored to the needs of the incident response and recovery community.

The new application, Gaia 3 for Incident Response (Gaia 3/IR), will combine NSDI Framework data access with new capabilities to share user-generated, event-specific information between all levels of response, providing enhanced overall situational awareness. Gaia 3/IR will be developed with CarbonTools PRO, a new software toolkit that provides extensible APIs for bringing location-based content into .NET and sharing this content within social networks.

The project involves the collaboration of the NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (NC DENR), the City of Charlotte, NC, Wake County, NC, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Carbon Project, and the geoLeaders Network. The effort will engage State, County and Municipal government organizations in a collaborative requirements process and then develop and deploy an interoperable software application with the ability to access Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Web services, including Framework data as Geography Markup Language (GML) from Web Feature Services (WFS), GPS and other sources in support of decision-making processes. The project will also provide software development tools and training to local organizations.

The NSDI is a coordinated national approach to geospatial data creation, maintenance, discovery, and use. It includes access to geospatial data themes for the Nation, developed by Federal, State, and Local governments, the private and non-profit sectors, and academia. NSDI Framework data themes include common data layers such as elevation, orthoimagery, transportation, surface water hydrography, cadastral data, governmental unit boundaries, and geodetic control. The data maintained in the NSDI Framework can be used to ensure government leaders the ability to make proactive, well-planned decisions.

The NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program was established by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to help form partnerships among organizations to implement the NSDI. The NSDI includes the technology, policies, criteria, standards and people necessary to promote geospatial information sharing throughout all levels of government, the private and non-profit sectors, and academia.

About The Carbon Project

The Carbon Project pioneers innovative geospatial solutions and aspires to make location-based information accessible and usable to everyone, everywhere. For more information please visit www.TheCarbonProject.com or our portal for software developers at www.TheCarbonPortal.net.

CarbonTools, The Carbon Project, Gaia and Open-Geospatial .NET are trademarks of Carbon Project, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Disclaimer: the information provided in this article does not constitute an endorsement by the EPA, USGS, or the FGDC of any non-federal entity, its products or its services.

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