The value of GO Loaders ability to adapt instantly to new GML data products without software change or lookup creation was highlighted at a recent event hosted by Ordnance Survey for its partners. ITN data was put through its paces in four demonstrations created by participants in the ITN early adopters programme and in all four cases the ITN data had been modeled and loaded into an Oracle 9i database using GO Loader. Ordnance Survey partners were able to start building their ITN applications on top of an enterprise database on the day the first sample data arrived from Ordnance Survey because GO Loader reduced what would normally have been eight to ten weeks to prepare the database to a matter of hours. Without the boost to productivity provided to the development teams by GO Loader it would not have been possible to produce demonstrators in the time available.

Snowflake worked alongside Ordnance Survey, Oracle, QinetiQ, WhereonEarth and Laser-Scan providing consultancy and its GO Loader technology to underpin a telematics demonstrator, showing route planning on the desktop and on mobile devices, which was unveiled at the Ordnance Survey partners event. GO Loader was also used by Snowflake partner Laser-Scan in its demonstration of data structuring using its Radius Topology technology and finally GO Loader provided the data modeling and loading for the demonstration by Yeoman Mobile Navigation showing routing services based on ITN delivered to a mobile phone.

"With the new ITN data we have really seen GO Loader come into its own," says Ian Painter, Managing Director of Snowflake Software. "Because the ITN data contains so many feature references between road links, junctions, drive restrictions and topographic features it is essential to have a good database model to be able to make use of this very powerful new product. Because GO Loader provides high productivity data modelling as well as data translation we were able to really exploit the dataset from day one."

Andy Embling, Vertical Marketing Manager, Ordnance Survey commented:

"As an early adopter of ITN data, Snowflake has worked with a number of organisations using its GO Loader technology to illustrate the key power of OS MasterMap in delivering rapid results when combined with the skills and applications of our Partners. Because ITN will provide the first national, comprehensive and intelligent multimodal transport network dataset for Great Britain, such developments are important to the whole of the economy in GB."