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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear MapServer users,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I thought you may find it interesting to know that The
Carbon Project has release its flagship product CarbonTools as a freeware. Granted,
this is not a Java project but a .NET one and not an open-source project
(although we provide the source-code to the accompanied tools), but I do
believe you should take a look at this package and tools as a .NET client to MapServer
based services. We are strong believers in the advancement of open and free
GIS, which prompt us to share our products with the community.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CarbonTools 2 is a highly expandable and versatile .NET
software development toolkit. Its architecture allows full separation of data
source (web-service, file etc.) and data content (raster, features etc.),
therefore enabling it to be expanded to many GIS formats. The toolkit includes
extensive support to OGC web-service capabilities, WMS, WFS and GML (2.x.x,
3.x.x). Two GML parsers are included – one uses the XML schemas thus
providing a deep analysis of sophisticated GML implementations, the other uses
common GML forms and is optimized for speed.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The toolkit also includes 3 utilities written using
CarbonTools and provided with full source code. The CapabilitiesAnalyzer
displays information about an OGC service, GMLAnalyzer provides analysis of
data and metadata within GML files and the CarbonViewer which is a viewer for
WMS and WFS services complete with map-tools.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CarbonTools is provided with full API documentation, also
available online at: <a href="http://www.thecarbonproject.com/docs/index.html">http://www.thecarbonproject.com/docs/index.html</a>.
</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We hope you will find CarbonTools useful as well as
productive and we will appreciate any comments, suggestions and requests.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Best regards,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Nuke Goldstein</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Founder</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>---------------------------------------</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.TheCarbonProject.com">www.TheCarbonProject.com</a>
</span></font></p>
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