Snowflake Software of Southampton, England, is pleased to announce that GDC, the UK's largest MapInfo Premier Partner, has become a GO Loader Reseller. GDC will use GO Loader to handle GML communications in its flagship product, GDC Spatial Warehouse. GDC Spatial Warehouse is an Oracle-based Spatial Data Warehouse capable of storing, managing and publishing all common UK Local Authority GI formats as well as communicating in GML, the open standard for enabling geographic data Joint Working between partner authorities. As well as providing the GDC Spatial Warehouse with the capability to load and update OS MasterMap and other business data, GO Loader also receives and applies change information.

Ian Painter, Managing Director of Snowflake Software says:

"GDC and Snowflake have a strong common view of the open architecture that best serves to join-up and deliver information. It has proved very straightforward for them to adopt GO Loader to their needs, and we are very pleased to be working with them."

Steven Feldman, Managing Director of GDC says:

"Our partnership with Snowflake has already produced a significant success with the London Central Partnership and the launch of the pilot LondonCABI e-Government project - http://cabi.graphdata.co.uk. We expect to see a significant number of local authorities investing in the GDC Spatial Warehouse and GO Loader in the near future".

Snowflake are co-sponsors of an event to be hosted by GDC on 'Partnerships and Geographic Data Sharing In Local e-Government', Tuesday 7 October 2003, at the Barbican Centre, London. Register for the event at www.graphdata.co.uk

About Snowflake Software

Snowflake Software are GML and spatial database experts with a mission to enable customers to gain maximum benefit from their geographic information by using standards based technologies centred around an Oracle database.Snowflake are actively developing an open generic 'GO' architecture based around OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) and ISO standards. Using this architecture as a common framework the company is developing a suite of industrial strength SCOTS (Standards Commercial Off-The-Shelf) products for commercial use.

To find out more about the first of these products, GO Loader, visit the GO Loader homepage: http://www.snowflakesoftware.co.uk/goloader

About GDC

GDC creates Geographically Intelligent Solutions to inform clients' business decisions by answering the question "Where?" GDC focus primarily on Geographic e-Government for Local Authorities and Location Based Risk Evaluation within the Insurance industry. GDC's GeoPlatform for Local e-Government combines PlanWeb, the market leading Intranet GIS, PlanAccess, an OGC compliant Web Map Server and GDC Spatial Warehouse, an Oracle open spatial data warehouse, to provide the geographic infrastructure for a corporate e-Government deployment. The GeoPlatform is complemented by GDC's mobile and desktop specialist applications.

Visit www.graphdata.co.uk for more information.