Open-Geospatial .NET Community and GeoWeb 2006 Join Forces

The Carbon Project today announced that The Carbon Portal, home of the Open-Geospatial .NET Community, has established a co-sponsorship agreement with GeoWeb 2006, the premier conference combining consumer location services and geographic information technologies.

Burlington, MA (PRWEB) March 11, 2006 –- The Carbon Project today announced that The Carbon Portal, home of the Open-Geospatial .NET Community, has established a co-sponsorship agreement with GeoWeb 2006, the premier conference combining consumer location services and geographic information technologies.

“The co-sponsorship agreement between GeoWeb 2006 and the Open-Geospatial .NET Community will help foster new levels of interactivity between consumer location services and geographic information technologies,” said Jeff Harrison, President and CEO of The Carbon Project.

The Carbon Portal, www.TheCarbonPortal.net, provides an online community where anyone can join at no cost, download free tools, exchange ideas and software code and find support among others seeking to advance geospatial interoperability on the Microsoft .NET Framework.

GeoWeb 2006, www.geoweb.org, is the premier conference for Web-based geographic information systems and the meeting point of consumer location services and professional geographic information technologies like Geography Markup Language (GML), KML, MapPoint, Open-Geospatial .NET, LandXML, and OGC Web Services for GIS.

The Carbon Portal is the online source for Open-Geospatial development on the Microsoft .NET Framework. The portal is hosted by The Carbon Project and supports the global Open-Geospatial .NET community of users and developers helping make location-based information accessible and usable to everyone, everywhere. For more information please visit www.TheCarbonPortal.net.

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 and OGC Web Services for GIS. For more information please visit www.geoweb.org.

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

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