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Snowflake Software Expands again – this time to larger Office Facilities

Snowflake Software announces its third move in just seven years of the company’s history, reflecting the continued expansion and corporate growth of the company.

GeoXchange Line-Up Now Finalized

With the GeoXchange dates (April 23 & 24) fast approaching, the line-up of industry experts is proving this event to be the must-attend conference for this fiscal year.

Snowflake Software's GO Publisher: the First to attain WFS 1.1.0 Compliance from the OGC

Snowflake Software is proud to announce that GO Publisher WFS is the first Web Feature Server to meet the new stringent Team Engine WFS 1.0.0 and WFS 1.1.0 Compliance Tests of the Open Geospatial Consortium. GO Publisher WFS was awarded certification to the OpenGIS® Web Feature Service Implementation Specification, Version 1.0.0 and Version 1.1.0 after passing over 200 individual tests on February 28, 2008.

The 2008 Snowflake Software Conference will focus on the requirements of the industry to make its data available, thereby complying with the demands of regional and international legislation.

Data sharing is not a national issue!
Data sharing is not a European issue!
The need to share data is a world-wide concern!

Snowflake Software and die grit GmbH announce a teaming agreement to supply GML tools and expertise to the German market. Snowflake has selected the Werne based company as its representative, enabling them to promote and resell its product suite throughout the German speaking regions.

Snowflake Software und grit GmbH treffen Kooperationsvereinbarung für den Deutschen Markt

Snowflake Software und grit GmbH geben den Abschluss einer Kooperationsvereinbarung bekannt. Die beiden Firmen werden zusammenarbeiten, um GML-Werkzeuge und Expertenwissen auf dem deutschen Markt anzubieten. Snowflake hat die in Werne ansässige grit GmbH beauftragt, ihre Produktlinie im gesamten deutschsprachigen Bereich zu vertreiben.

Snowflake Software introduces two new technical experts to its increasingly growing team. Geoffrey Walters and Duncan Southam have recently joined the company to help extend the company's web services capabilities and continue to position Snowflake as the experts in GML.

Snowflake Software takes pleasure in announcing that the Gemeente Eindhoven has recently joined its GO Loader user group, utilizing the tool to load GML for the city's future building applications.

Following an extensive tender exercise carried out under the European Union Public Procurement Regulations Competitive Dialogue procedure, Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of Great Britain, has chosen the three-company team, led by Intergraph Corporation, to drive production efficiency, improve data consistency and support the creation of new products.

Snowflake Software announces support for ArcGIS Network Analyst, ESRI's ArcGIS extension for network-based spatial analysis including routing, travel directions and closest facility analysis .

EDINA and Snowflake Software announce the launch of innovative, new MasterMap on-line delivery service for UK academia and are proud to announce that 32,000 academic users in over 148 higher and further education institutions now have access to Ordnance Survey MasterMap through the EDINA Digimap service.

Snowflake Software announces that the latest release of its OS MasterMap® loading tool - GO Loader - will offer full support for the Digital National Framework (DNF) feature catalogue.

Snowflake Software takes pleasure in introducing the latest member of its team, Daniel Hardwick, to its pre-sales support infrastructure. Daniel brings to Snowflake a wealth of experience in both GIS and geology, providing a perfect knowledge base for the company's growing user group. Having lived in New Zealand , Australia and Brazil , he also expands the already international community of Snowflake's personnel.

Snowflake Software will be demonstrating its XML/GML publishing tool, GO Publisher, for the first time at ESRI UC 2007 in San Diego later this month. The decision to participate at ESRI's world-wide conference and exhibition is the result of Snowflake's active participation in the EDN (ESRI Developer's Network) programme and the accumulation of the development work Snowflake has been investing recently to support ArcSDE.

3D models are more than just eye candy! With CityGML, the three dimensional data contains real intelligence and is now a reliable application for real-life deployment in telecommunications, city planning, disaster recovery, noise mapping, simulators and vehicle navigation. During the Oracle Spatial SIG Meeting in Reading last month, Ian Painter of Snowflake Software presented how GO Publisher has been used in the Open Geospatial Consortium OWS-4 testbed to deploy CityGML via Web Feature Services.

As legislation continues to impose the demand for data interoperability and shared services, the capabilities of GO Publisher are enabling international organisations to achieve compliance. Snowflake Software now welcomes the European Commission's Joint Research Centre ( EU Integrated Project ORCHESTRA), Ordnance Survey and the Geomatics Department of the University National Chen Kung to its User Group.

Snowflake Software is making its debut at INTERGEO 2006 by showing just how "open" its technology is. Based on OGC and ISO standards, the products developed by Snowflake are just as applicable for the German and Dutch market place as they are in the UK

Snowflake Software demonstriert vereinfachten Datenbankimport und -Export von AAA-NAS und TOP10NL Daten auf der INTERGEO 2006

Snowflake Software beteiligt sich dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal an der INTERGEO 2006, wobei die Firma ihre Technologie offener Standards zeigt. Basierend auf OGC- und ISO- Standards lassen sich die Produkte von Snowflake nicht nur im britischen sondern auch im deutschen und niederländischen Markt platzieren.

Engineering based GIS and CAD clients are seldom well understood by corporate GIS teams. Consequently, CAD is often overlooked in the integration of OS MasterMap ® within a centralised Oracle database or, best case, thought about last minute. IME and Snowflake Software are now working closely together to address this issue with an integrated GIS Tool from Snowflake and consultancy, training and bespoke development services from IME.

Snowflake Software announces that it has recently joined the ESRI Developer Network to ensure even greater compatibility between the product lines.

Snowflake Software beteiligt sich am ESRI Partner und Allianz Programm

Snowflake Software gibt bekannt, daß es sich von jetzt an am ESRI Entwickler-Netzwerk beteiligt, um noch grössere Kompatibilität zwischen den Produkten zu ermöglichen.

During the OGC Technical Committee in Edinburgh earlier this month, CityGML proved just how valuable seeing the full picture can be: for the first time, serving 3 Dimensional data over the web was successfully demonstrated by a collaboration between Snowflake Software and the University of Bonn.

Snowflake Software announces a series of training courses targeted at multiple levels of expertise for employees in the GIS Industry. The courses promise to provide even the most novice of users a complete understanding of XML and GML, their role within the OGC and ISO standards and the benefits they can bring to an organisation. For those already adept in the concept of XML and GML, there is a hands-on course covering the practical side of GML application schema development.

Snowflake Software announces GO Loader 1.4 - continuing its commitment to supporting multiple GIS packages and open technology through the introduction of Fan-Out, and enhanced CAPS UNI-form support.

Snowflake Software announces the latest release of its generic GML loading tool, GO Loader. Originally designed to support GML 2 in particular the national dataset for Great Britain (Ordnance Survey's MasterMap), GO Loader is now the ultimate tool for loading GML 3.x into an Oracle database.

Snowflake Software takes pleasure in announcing that its GO Publisher product has recently been officially awarded confirmation that it is compliant with the OpenGIS® Web Feature Service Implementation Specification Version 1.0.

Snowflake Software and MapInfo announce their participation at the 4 th GML Relay taking place in Emmen (the Netherlands ) on January 26, 2006.

Snowflake Software announces the availability of its GO Loader ITN Tool, delivering the richness of OS MasterMap's ITN layers to the GIS environment

Snowflake Software has recently expanded its work force by adding two key positions central to the future development of the company. Elizabeth Wilkinson joins Snowflake to drive the Sales and Marketing strategy for the company's flagship products: GO Loader and GO Publisher

Entitled "XML: Open for Business with Open Standards" Snowflake Software's inaugural 2005 User & Partner Conference is a two day event for users and partners to explore the exciting future of XML in the GI industry.

Snowflake Software announce two new training courses for its flagship product GO Loader.

In response to continued business growth, Snowflake Software has moved to a new spacious, open-plan office at Eastgate House, Town Quay, Southampton.

Snowflake Software continues to prove its 'future proof' capability and announces additional support for the forthcoming OS MasterMap v6 release. Existing customers should access the secure support area for more information on downloading the new release.