Snowflake Software launches INSPIRE Testing Services

8th July 2011 - Snowflake Software, a participating organisation in the Annex II & III data specification testing, announced its support for testing at the INSPIRE Conference in Edinburgh.

Taking a multifaceted approach, Snowflake aims to support participants in Annex II & III testing with their ‘You do it; we do it; we do it together’ philosophy, with an emphasis on supporting organisations through the testing process in a way that best suits their needs. Testing runs for four months from 20 June to 21 October 2011.

The new service complements Snowflake’s existing ‘INSPIRE as a Service’ model and offers a number of options for organisations to transform their data into INSPIRE compliant data:

• You do it – Participants can make use of a free, fully extended GO Publisher licence to carry out their     own data specification testing;
• We do it – Snowflake will perform the data transformations on behalf of the participating organisation;
• We do it together – Participants can attend a testing workshop which includes practical sessions to perform the data specification testing and required transformations.

Ian Painter, Managing Director of Snowflake Software comments:

“In terms of implementation, Annex II and Annex III really widens the reach of INSPIRE.

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Snowflake Software facilitates use of TOP50NL in The Netherlands

Snowflake Software, specialists in standards based data exchange, has been supporting its Dutch customers with the newly released TOP50NL via its market leading loading tool, GO Loader.

The Base Registration Topography (BRT) data set was launched less than two weeks ago by Dutch Kadaster and is the latest model to be released in the open standard, GML, by the national mapping agency.

GO Loader, the market leader for loading and managing GML, is being used throughout The Netherlands to handle several existing GML data models such as IMRO, TOP10NL and IMGeo. Its unique ‘schema aware’ technology enables GO Loader to load the new data set without the need for infrastructure change or coding. And it is this same technology that positions GO Loader at the front of the pack for handling future datasets, straight out of the box. 

To support the release of TOP50NL, Snowflake Software will be running an educational webinar ‘Loading and Managing TOP50NL in your Database’ which will cover Loading and Managing as well as visualising the data in your GIS. Snowflake also offers the only GML training courses in Europe.

Richard Rombouts, Technical sales Consultant comments:

“The use of GML as a standard for geographical data exchange is increasing and The Netherlands is continuing to develop new data models, positioning them at the forefront of standards based data exchange in Europe.” he continued; “Anyone who wants to find out more about getting the most from their TOP50NL data should register for our educational webinar.”

The webinar; Loading and Managing TOP50NL in your database, will be held at 3pm CET on Thursday 31 March 2011.  Anyone interested in attending should REGISTER HERE for their place.

Anyone interested in understanding more about the GML, the open standard for data exchange should consider attending a GML Training Course.

www.snowflakesoftware.com/top50nl/

Snowflake Kick Starts New Year With Intuitive Customer Portal

Snowflake Software has kick-started the new year with a brand new Customer Portal – support.snowflakesoftware.com.

The new customer portal is the latest in a line of improvements that the Snowflake customer base has seen over the last year, including the launch of the Early Access Programme and the availability of OS OpenData as GML.

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Snowflake Software launches ‘INSPIRE as a Service’ at AGI Conference

Snowflake Software, Silver Sponsors at this week’s AGI GeoCommunity ’10 conference, has announced a brand new service for INSPIRE in the UK; starting with support for Annex I INSPIRE datasets.

INSPIRE as a Service is a new offering from Snowflake to assist UK organisations in achieving INSPIRE compliance. 

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Snowflake Software kicks off Early Access Programme with WFS 2.0

Snowflake Software has launched its Early Access Programme to customers and product evaluators alike, kicking off with an early access version of its upcoming GO Publisher WFS 2.0 product.

The programme has been initiated by Snowflake to provide customers with advanced access to product releases before they are commercially ready. The Early Access versions will be available to download from the Snowflake Support website as they are released, with the first on offer being the GO Publisher WFS 2.0 – featuring the implementation of the new OGC web feature service standard, a necessity for INSPIRE compliance.

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