GO Loader for Ordnance Survey Data

GO Loader enables you to get the most out of your Ordnance Survey products, with comprehensive support for the complete OS MasterMap family and the new OS VectorMap Local product. GO Loader is the market leading tool for managing data from the Ordnance Survey.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away ... the founders of Snowflake Software once worked for Ordnance Survey where they were the technical leads responsible for the creation of OS MasterMap. Over the years all that 'insider' knowledge has gone into GO Loader making the loading tool of choice. You can read more about their involvement in OS MasterMap on the OS website.

OS MasterMap®

GO Loader is the most effective solution for modelling, loading and maintaining OS MasterMap® in an Oracle (Spatial or Locator), SQL Server 2008 or PostGIS and has direct support for all OS MasterMap layers:

 

Features specifically developed to support OS MasterMap:

  • Predefined data models for all layers
  • Remove duplicate features supplied in multiple OS MasterMap chunks
  • Apply OS MasterMap change-only update files to remove the need to reload data
  • Create archives of deleted and changed features when applying updates
  • Direct GIS registration and sample style files for ESRI, MapInfo, CadCorp, Intergraph, Autodesk platforms
  • Validate your holding using the Feature Validation Data Set (FVDS)

For further details on GO Loader working with OS MasterMap, see our GO Loader response to Ordnance Survey's OS MasterMap Software Checklist.

OS VectorMap Local

GO Loader is a generic gml loading tool. So when Ordnance Survey released OS VectorMap Local, GO Loader customers were able to load and manage OS VectorMap from day one, without needing a software change.

In addition, we've added further value to our OS VectorMap Local support by creating GIS style files for each OS VectorMap style, every geometry and all feature types. With support for Oracle (Spatial or Locator) database, SQL Server 2008 or PostGIS, we've got all the bases covered for OS VectorMap.

For more information about GO Loader support for OS VectorMap Local, visit our dedicated OS VectorMap page.