Category Archives: Technical
The 65th Sprint Landing
Written on September 5, 2012 at 4:29 pm, by Rosie
GO Loader Sprint 65 has landed, though this doesn’t rival the Mars Exploration Rover scenes, it is exciting in our world of data exchange! Find out about GO Loader improvements, new features and bug fixes from the Sprint 65 release notes. GO Loader Sprint 65 is now available to access from the Customer Portal. Find out more about our Early
INSPIRE ATOM Feeds Demo now available!
Written on June 25, 2012 at 4:52 pm, by Ballal Joglekar
Debbie Wilson recently posted a blog about Implementing INSPIRE Download Services. Yesterday (Sunday 24th June 2012) Debbie presented at the INSPIRE Conference in Istanbul and successfully ran a workshop to help people get up to speed with the latest technical guidance for INSPIRE Download Services. The INSPIRE ATOM Feeds Resources that were part of Debbie’s demo
GML 3.2 is changing! (but not very much).
Written on April 26, 2012 at 2:00 pm, by ecurtis
The OGC is updating GML 3.2 to make use of the current XLink 1.1 standard from the W3C (instead of 1.0 as currently used). What is this going to mean for GML users? The answer depends on how you work with the schemas…
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
Your support is about to get even better
Written on December 8, 2010 at 2:50 pm, by Cat Stormont
If you read my last blog (Snowflakes in Southampton) you might remember me mentioning the new Customer Portal that we’ve been busy working on? Well, we’ve contacted the majority of our customers, partners and colleagues and let them know that the new Customer Portal will be going live on Saturday 11th December. That’s this Saturday!
Initiating an OGC Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment
Written on September 1, 2010 at 9:09 am, by Cat Stormont
Along with our fellow OGC members; Cadcorp and EDINA, we’ve initiated an OGC Web Services (OWS) Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment (IE) to advance best practice for implementing standards on federated security in transactions involving geospatial data and services. The IE will demonstrate use of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) with OGC Web Services, including use of Shibboleth. This
Our Techies have started blogging – check it out
Written on May 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm, by Cat Stormont
Yes, it’s true. Our technical team here at Snowflake have started blogging. Affectionately known to us as ‘Techies’, they’ve only gone and created their own blog as well. Which is great news for anyone who wants to get the lowdown on anything more technical from Snowflake. Just be sure to bookmark it. The ‘Techie blog’ is free
