Category Archives: Data Providers
Open Standards at Geospatial World Forum
Written on May 29, 2013 at 9:37 am, by Richard Rombouts
Earlier this month I attended the Geospatial World Forum 2013 conference in the Netherlands. Besides being a good opportunity to go back to my home country and stock up on boxes of hagelslag, Snowflake was invited to speak in the Technology Forum about how SMEs’ strengths can be leveraged for INSPIRE…..
GO Loader 1.7 – Take the tour
Written on October 19, 2012 at 2:46 pm, by Cat Stormont
We’ve jam packed the latest release of GO Loader with so many cool functions we want to offer you the chance to jump on one of our free HOT new feature webinars.
XML and GML content validation – As A Service
Written on August 28, 2012 at 11:49 am, by Alexis James Brooker
Rubbish data in, rubbish data out – it is an inescapable fact that you can’t do a great deal with rubbish data, no matter how clever your axioms are. What you can do however, is work out how rubbish and why that is rubbish….you can now use business rules to check that the data content makes sense for your domain and usage.
Bring on the Maritime Extract, Transform and Load
Written on August 20, 2012 at 1:50 pm, by Alexis James Brooker
S-100 Summer Update
Well it’s been a few months since GeoMaritime (June!) and I have been pleasantly surprised by the interest generated from my white paper drafted at the same time, “Adoption of Open Standards is just the start for Maritime Geospatial Information and Intelligence Exchange”. Since then I have been prompted into providing a bit more background to S-100, because the IHO website is almost undecipherable, unless you enjoy reading 100 page documents…
Adopting Open Standards for S100 is just the start for the Maritime domain
Written on June 12, 2012 at 2:13 pm, by Alexis James Brooker
With GeoMaritime this week, it seemed appropriate to share my views on the process of validation and real world usage of GML based exchange products – S100 is shaping up to be the interoperability shot in the arm for the maritime industry, but it is just the start….
Snowflake at Ordnance Survey’s Location 2012
Written on May 14, 2012 at 10:46 am, by Richard Rombouts
At the break of dawn on 8 May the Snowflake team, consisting of Cat, Rosie and myself (Richard), set off for Location 2012 at Reading’s Madejski Stadium. This one-day event organised by Ordnance Survey was all about making profit from mapping and location data. Being involved in the location data market for over 10 years (and even managing
Kadaster lanceert TOP50NL (Dutch Kadaster launches TOP50NL)
Written on February 3, 2011 at 3:04 pm, by Richard Rombouts
Begin februari 2011 het Kadaster de nieuwe dataset TOP50NL ter beschikking gesteld aan haar klanten. Wellicht heb je inmiddels een CD ontvangen met een landsdekkend bestand, opgedeeld in blokken van ca. 300MB en vraag je je af wat je hier nu mee moet doen. GO LoaderOm deze GML bestanden snel en eenvoudig te laden in
INTERGEO Karlsruhe Germany
Written on September 28, 2009 at 4:00 pm, by Cat Stormont
This week I took the long road to Karsruhe in southern Germany to visit our Germany Business Partner grit GmbH, who were exhibiting at INTERGEO and we joined them on their stand. Although the show has now shrunk to two halls, boy it was still worth it. It’s been a very long time since I’ve been
CC The Exchange Conference at Ordnance Survey
Written on July 15, 2009 at 3:29 pm, by Cat Stormont
Snowflake sponsored the CC The Exchange Conference this year. Held at the headquarters of Ordnance Survey, it attracts a good number of Heads of National Mapping Agencies, and other notable industry Government departments across the world. As sponsor, you get a stand and a chance to meet the delegates during coffee – to speed date
Training – where’s the value?
Written on July 6, 2009 at 8:51 am, by Cat Stormont
Long before I joined Snowflake, training courses were being carried out here, on "basic" GML and "hands on " GML . They have always been successful and widely talked about around the world. Up till now Eddie Curtis was the only person we could spare (and he wrote the courses) to carry out the training,
