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Early Access Programme – First release

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You might have seen the recent buzz and news around our brand new Early Access Programme? If you haven’t, take a look at the full details on our News site: Snowflake Software kicks off Early Access Programme with WFS 2.0
 
The Early Access Programme (or EAP if you like), is a great new benefit for existing customers. It gives you advanced access to new product releases before they are commercially ready for release. At the Early Access stage, the products are still in development but they will have new features and functionality so you can get a technical competitive advantage and head start.
 
Snowflake operates the Scrum Agile software development process. This means that every two weeks we create a new build of the products we are currently working on. So you can expect frequent updates and sneak previews into what's coming up in the commercial releases.
 
Quality Assurance
We are able to bring you the Early Access Programme not only because of our continuing technical developments, but also because of our investment in quality.
Whilst the Early Access products are not yet commercially ready, they are rigorously tested by the Pre-Sales teams, as well as passing several fundamental quality assurance processes during the development stage, including continuous integration, automated unit and regression testing, and static code analysis.
 
Download the latest Early Access version for GO Publisher
Our first Early Access release contains additional new developments to support the OGC Web Feature Service Standard – WFS 2.0. Something that is a requirement of the INSPIRE framework.
 
View the Release Notes.

 

Extreme GML

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warning.jpgHopefully you've seen our GML quiz? It was really popular and great for beginners. If you haven't seen it, why not take a peek at this link and have a go?

>>> Take the beginners GML quiz

Now we've created a test for the hardcore. Extreme GML as we call it, is almost a new sport. It's not for the faint-hearted and should come with a parental warning!


A follow up to the popular quiz 'How much do you know about GML?', this extreme quiz takes it to the next level. 


If you think you can handle it, click on the button to take the quiz. There's no turning back.
 
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Melissa Burns | Marketing Manager | melissa.burns@snowflakesoftware.com | www.twitter.com/sflakesoftware

 

 

Dual Loading of spatial data for update and fail-over using GO Loader.

Snowflake Software works with a number of customers where spatial data underpins key external and internal services.  In the United Kingdom OS MasterMap data is a key spatial dataset with updates supplied every 6 weeks.   However what happens when it is time to apply these updates to your live system or the unthinkable happens and there is a complete hard disk failure.        

There are a number of different fail-over solutions however creating a "Dual Load" using GO Loader is simple solution that any organisations can consider.  

It basically means creating two copies of the data in  different users, tables and tablespaces within the same database.   Ideally the tablespaces containing the tables would be setup to be physically on different hard disks within the server for I/O and failover reasons.   A third user has database views onto one of the two sets of data tables and remains a static connection point for applications such as MapInfo and/or ArcSDE.  These views can then be ‘swapped’ using simple scripts to make one data set or the other ‘live’.  Updates and COU can then be applied to the ‘non-live’ dataset without disruption to your customers access.

 Benefits of using a dual load:

1. Minimise downtime during COU load and provide 24x7 access.
2. Minimise disruption when disks etc fails
3. Allow changes and updates to made when access to the dataset is required.

Contact the Snowflake Support team if you need any help with setting up a Dual Load
(....before we receive your urgent phone call last thing on Friday afternoon after a database crash!)

 

The lastest version of the GML schemas can be downloaded from the offical European Commision INSPIRE portal.  Here is a quick link to the download page....

INSPIRE GML application schema download

 
Them try them out in the latest version of GO Loader and GO Publisher!
GO Publisher INSPIRE solution for creating INSPIRE data and WFS2.0
GO Loader INSPIRE solution for loading INSPIRE data

 

 

New patch release for GO Loader v1.6 available.

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