BURLINGTON, MA, April 3, 2008 – The Carbon Project announced today that the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office’s Defence Development Group has purchased CarbonArc PRO for ArcGIS 9.2 to support its OGC development work.

CarbonArc PRO brings a new generation of Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) data discovery and production tools directly to the ArcGIS 9.2 desktop.

”We’re pleased the UK Hydrographic Office has selected CarbonArc PRO for ArcGIS 9.2 to support their geospatial interoperability efforts,” said Jeff Harrison, President and CEO of The Carbon Project.

By plugging into ArcGIS, CarbonArc PRO lets people use OGC services and data as an integral part of the GIS, including WMS, WFS, WFS-T, WCS, Filter Encoding (FE), Gazetteer, GML, GMLsf and Catalog Services (CS-W),as an integral part of the GIS.

CarbonArc PRO has been selected by multiple government customers and has been featured in many recent interoperability demonstrations.

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About The Carbon Project
        
The Carbon Project is an innovative, high-energy software and technology company specializing in mapping and Geosocial Networking™. The Carbon Project serves professionals, software developers, government agencies and businesses that develop mapping solutions or use geospatial data. The Carbon Project also provides geographically enabled social networking solutions for distributing real-time digital news, video content and geographically targeted marketing. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with offices in Alexandria, VA, The Carbon Project is a privately owned company backed by individual investors. For more information please visit: www.TheCarbonProject.com

The Carbon Project, Geosocial Networking and CarbonArc are trademarks or registered trademarks of Carbon Project, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their owners.

About the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

The UKHO, which is part of the Ministry of Defence, has been charting the world’s oceans for more than 200 years with the primary aim of providing navigational services for the Royal Navy and merchant mariners to save and protect lives at sea. Nearly 70 per cent of world shipping use these charts in satisfaction of United Nations Safety Of Life At Sea (SOLAS) mandatory carriage requirements. The UKHO also plays a central role, in support of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, in discharging the navigation element of the UK’s SOLAS Treaty obligations for waters of UK national responsibility. For more information please visit http://www.ukho.gov.uk/

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