Snowflake Software of Southampton, England, is pleased to announce that the Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru, Countryside Council for Wales, has chosen its GO Loader to build and manage its Oracle Spatial database of Ordnance Survey MasterMap data for Wales and surrounds. This corporate database will support applications including Tir Gofal (Agri-environmental scheme), Open Access (Exclusions and Restrictions) and organisation-wide use of GIS, using MapInfo Professional and MapXtreme. In addition other applications use Oracle Forms.

Ian Painter, Managing Director of Snowflake Software says:

"As a Welshman, I am particularly pleased that the first user of GO Loader in government is the Countryside Council for Wales. They made excellent use of our evaluation process to investigate the product and to confirm that it meets their requirements."

Sarah Macartney, GIS Officer at Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru, Countryside Council for Wales, says:

"Go Loader is a very powerful and flexible tool and does just what we need. It enabled CCW to move the OS MasterMap project ahead quickly and with relative ease. From April 2004 CCW will be starting to manage the new access rights introduced by the Countryside Rights of Way Act 2000. This work will be supported by a computer system which integrates a "traditional" administrative system with spatial data from the Ordnance Survey, using Oracle Spatial.Go Loader has contributed to making several projects within CCW possible."

About GO Loader

GO Loader is Snowflake's premier product for designing and building Oracle Spatial and Locator databases from content delivered in the Geography Markup Language (GML). GO Loader provides easy to use graphical interfaces that guide the user through all aspects of the database lifecycle covering: logical and physical data modelling, table creation, partitioning, data load, indexing and archiving. GO Loader is unique in the fact that it is a generic GML tool that works with any GML2.1 schema without requiring software change or reliance on bespoke lookup files for any new GML datasets. As well as being a generic GML tool, GO Loader is the ideal choice for OS MasterMap users as it includes specific support for duplicate removal, change only update and feature archiving. To find out more about GO Loader and follow the new interactive Walkthrough, visit the GO Loader homepage http://www.snowflakesoftware.co.uk/goloader

About Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru, Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)

CCW is the Government's statutory adviser on sustaining natural beauty, wildlife and the opportunity for outdoor enjoyment throughout Wales and its inshore waters. With English Nature and Scottish Natural Heritage, CCW delivers its statutory responsibilities for Great Britain as a whole, and internationally, through the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. More information about CCW us available on the internet at: http://www.ccw.gov.uk