INSPIRE-Ready Technology

Snowflake Software showcased its two new product releases; GO Loader 1.6 and GO Publisher 1.4 at last week's AGI Community conference, in Stratford-upon-Avon (UK). The releases of the products provide an out-of-the-box platform for organisations to realise INSPIRE compliance, as well as future proof their existing technology infrastructure and eliminate the threat of unnecessary software development or upgrade costs.  

At the conference, where ‘realising the value of place' was the theme, Snowflake demonstrated its data exchange software by loading Annex 1 INSPIRE data with  the latest release of its GO Loader software, which can then be used with a customer's own existing infrastructure. Conversely, with the new release of its GO Publisher software, Snowflake showcased its capabilities to publish data to final draft INSPIRE data specifications which were released less than a week ago. The latest enhancements to both products have been rigorously tested as part of the EC's Joint Research Centre INSPIRE testing initiative and both were successfully used by leading organisations across Europe to produce GML 3.2.1 datasets compliant to the Annex 1 Themes.

Whilst INSPIRE support is a key feature of the new releases, it is not the only new addition.  Experts from Snowflake Software also took the opportunity to unveil the capacity to manage data in a choice of databases, and the opportunity to extend the reach of data by publishing into consumer mapping applications such as Bing, Yahoo! or Google.

For organisations that require additional support in understanding the complexities of the INSPIRE legislation, Snowflake has a dedicated INSPIRE section on their website and a tailored training programme to help client's bridge the gap between initiative and implementation.