Snowflake Software is pleased to announce its first software offering - a freely available viewer capable of viewing the Ordnance Survey's latest flagship product OS MasterMap™.

Written entirely in Java, and deployed using the latest deployment technology from Sun Microsystems, Snowflake's OS MasterMap™ viewer is packed with plenty of advanced functionality to help discover the full potential of OS MasterMap™. Highlights include :

• Support for both Topological and Independent Polygon GML
• Import both compressed (WinZip, GZip) and uncompressed GML.
• Load multiple files at speeds up to 1800 features / sec on 1Ghz PC
• Full support for the latest OS MasterMap™ style guide

Snowflake Software continue to build a leading edge product portfolio designed from the ground up to specifically meet the needs of the latest innovations in mapping data. As a showcase for these innovations, Snowflake are providing their OS MasterMap™ Viewer free of charge on their web site.

To download Snowflake's OS MasterMap® Viewer:
http://www.snowflakesoft.co.uk/viewer

More information on the Ordnance Survey is available from
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Details of the OS MasterMap product can be found at
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmastermap