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Farallon VP David Lapp named to Oracle Spatial SIG Board

San Francisco - September 12, 2005 - David Lapp, Farallon Geographics’ Vice President and Senior Database Engineer, recently joined the Board of Directors of the North American Oracle Spatial Special Interest Group. Mr. Lapp is Farallon Geographics’ lead Oracle Spatial expert. He has integrated its extensive functionality with diverse applications for clients in many industries including state & local government, insurance, transportation, and homeland security.

The North American Oracle Spatial SIG provides a focal point for existing and potential users of Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator as tools to store and manipulate location data within an enterprise environment. These tools are used by public and private sector organizations to integrate large volumes of diverse business data to support their business and policy objectives. The SIG provides a forum for geospatial professionals to share best practices and meet with Oracle Spatial experts.

Farallon Geographics’ Oracle Spatial experts will be presenting a recent project which integrated cutting edge features of Oracle Spatial at the Oracle Spatial SIG meeting. The meeting will be held in conjunction with Oracle Open World and will take place from 2:30 to 4:30pm on Sunday, September 18 at the Palace Hotel, French Parlor Suite, San Francisco.

About Farallon Geographics
Farallon Geographics (www.fargeo.com), based in San Francisco, is a leader in the planning, implementation, and integration of GIS systems and software to support mission critical business functions. As a formal business partner with major vendors in the GIS market, Farallon provides unique and objective strategic and technical implementation services for enterprise-scale GIS.