Snowflake Labs

It was only a few weeks ago that the great and the good of the Aeronautical Information Management Industry (289 participants from 53 States, 5 International Organizations and 17 Industry Exhibitors) were gathered in the beautiful city of Istanbul for the IFAIMA conference 2013 and Alex Brooker was there for Snowflake....

Get your hands on our latest development release. Our developers are working hard on our next GO Publisher release and in true Snowflake style we're giving our customers a taste of the new functionality through our early access programme!

Back in March we blogged about the contract we were awarded with the Ordnance Survey Great Britain as part of the collaborative European Commission co-funded i-SCOPE project. As part of this work with the Ordnance Survey we developed some great training resources aimed at data/information architects and systems developers that need to extend CityGML 2.0. And even better, we can share this training material with you...for free! You'll find all the material ready to use on our public wiki-pages.

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....

To celebrate the ATM Viewer's 6 month birthday we're shipping our biggest release yet, version 1.1, which is so stuffed with new features it's fit to burst. Check out the new features including Gazetteer & Lat/Long Search, Initial support for loading Digital NOTAMs and more..

GO Publisher 2.1.5 is now available! We responded to some excellent customer feedback and the new release contains some key bug fixes for GO Publisher WFS....

Since launching the ATM Viewer for AIXM back in October 2012 we've seen hundreds of downloads - which means there are hundreds of users out there enjoying this great piece of free software. We've had fantastic feedback from people like the team at AeroNavData - "...the ATM viewer is outstanding for visualizing AIXM airport mapping data." - and Group EAD who use the tool everyday to visualise AIXM as part of their AIXM training. So with so many individuals, and teams, making use of the Viewer we've set up a fantastic Wiki Guide to help you get the most from the software...

Following the release of GO Loader 1.7 last October, we have turbo charged the latest update, 1.7.1, with some very exciting new features and improvements! We’ve also “exterminated” some bugs and responded as always to customer feedback. Upgrade from your existing version via the Customer Portal or contact us to try out an evaluation! So how have we suped-up GO Loader for 1.7.1?

Here at Snowflake we are all about developing the fastest, most scalable and easy to use software tools for our customers. Sounds great, but how fast are our software tools actually?