"CarbonArc Lite is a free extension to world’s most popular geographic information system (GIS) and will help users leverage their investment in GIS and transform to interoperable spatial data infrastructures,” said Jeff Harrison, President and CEO of The Carbon Project. “CarbonArc Lite extends ArcGIS to support OGC Web Map Service (WMS) or Web Feature Service (WFS) sources as an integral part of GIS. In addition, CarbonArc uses Geography Markup Language (GML) in ArcGIS, including mixed-geometry features, with no loss of information and integrates with ArcGIS styling for powerful GML rendering."

Harrison also says, "CarbonArc Lite is simple, easy to use and integrates the best open-geospatial content from ESRI, CubeWerx, eSpatial, government sources and many others. Its multi-threaded design maximizes usability of these OGC services while minimizing idle time. For example, the caching mechanism can display maps in ArcGIS while new data is being loaded in the background. Moreover, the data is saved and loaded with ArcMap sessions. This allows you to quickly restore an OGC session from a local file without requiring an Internet connection. CarbonArc also uses simple, but powerful, filters to control how GML is downloaded, something users really need. Since it’s extendible with data content add-ons from CustomWeather and premium imagery providers, WFS Transaction add-ons and more, CarbonArc really provides a complete interoperability platform."

CarbonArc Lite was developed using CarbonTools and The Carbon Project’s unique Source-Handler-Data architecture. The Carbon Project’s flagship products, CarbonTools Lite and CarbonTools PRO, are based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and provide powerful and extensible APIs for bringing location-based information into .NET.
The CarbonArc Lite free download is distributed with the intention to allow individual users the opportunity to use open-geospatial content on the ArcGIS platform. The CarbonArc Lite free download is licensed for individual use of qualifying users only. A low-cost license is available for commercial, educational or government purposes.
For more information on CarbonArc Lite please contact The Carbon Project at +1.703.491.9543, by email at info@thecarbonproject.com or visit them online at www.TheCarbonProject.com.

About The Carbon Project
The Carbon Project is a Microsoft Certified Partner and ESRI Business Partner that 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 www.TheCarbonPortal.net.
CarbonTools, The Carbon Project, CarbonArc, Source-Handler-Data architecture and Open-Geospatial .NET are trademarks of Carbon Project, Inc. ESRI, ArcGIS and ArcMap are trademarks of ESRI. OGC is a trademark of the Open-Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.