About: Debbie Wilson

To enable states to publish Air Navigation Meteorological Service data in XML, the WMO and ICAO are developing an Aviation Meteorological Exchange Model (AvXML – current working title). In February 2013 release candidate 1.0 of AvXML was released for initial review by both the Meteorological and software vendor community. Discover what we have been doing here at Snowflake with AvXML…

Last Monday (8th April) was a momentous one for me. Not only was it my birthday, but I also celebrated the months of hard work that myself and other experts across Europe put into the development of the INSPIRE Annex II and III Data Specifications. The INSPIRE Annex II and II Data Specifications were unanimously agreed by the Member States, with only a couple of minor amendments being required for a few code lists. The translation of the Implementing Rule for Interoperability of spatial data sets and services can now be finalised and the Regulation will enter into force in the forthcoming months….

So there are two weeks to go until the deadline for submissions for our SESAR SWIM Masterclass prototype: “Emulating SWIM B2B Services using GO Publisher WFS”. We have made considerable progress in the last month and we are ready to make our initial services and resources accessible to the wider world to see and test.

June 2012 represents another major milestone for INSPIRE Implementation. This is the month when Annex I and II data providers are expected to have set up their INSPIRE Download Services in initial operating capability. However, if you have not been able to do this yet, don’t panic as the European Commission only published the latest version of the INSPIRE Download Services Technical Guidance v3.0 on 12th June. But it is time to get started..