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1Spatial developing Technical Guidance for INSPIRE Transformation Services Cambridge UK, 8th December 2009: Following extensive investment in European activities, 1Spatial is pleased to announce their role in the consortium awarded the contract to 'Develop Technical Guidance for the INSPIRE Transformation Service'. This is specifically for schema transformation of geospatial datasets in Europe. With so many regional and national Spatial Data Infrastructures at different points of development across Europe, data vary quite significantly in quality, coverage, content and structure. Pulling data together or aggregating them across Europe from the different sources, different themes and at multiple resolutions, through a services-based approach is a concept yet to be implemented in practice on any significant scale. This contract award will go part-way towards delivering the information required to better understand some of the benefits from the data sharing and harmonisation challenges that transformation addresses... SOURCE: [ http://www.1spatial.com/news_events/index.php?news=308 ] Top 10 things you need to know about "1Spatial": 1. Profitable, privately owned, British IT organisation with extensive geospatial data knowledge and skills 2. Delivering enterprise information architectures through data integration, transformation, validation and quality lifecycle management software and services 3. Working on the world's largest seamless geospatial database and data management system at Ordnance Survey Great Britain. Addressing transactional data management and workflow from capture to publishing 4. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) exemplar projects include GeoHub in Northern Ireland and working with almost every Local Authority in Scotland on the Scottish Government ePlanning Project 5. SDI Conformance Model with Tried and Tested™ approach for INSPIRE; exemplar solutions across multiple data themes, such as cadastral parcels, transportation networks and hydrography 6. Winner of several AGI awards for Innovation and Best Practice. Customer solutions for Property Registration Authority Ireland, Department for Transport (through GeoSolveIT), Local Government Boundaries Commission in Northern Ireland and No1. AIDU of the UK Royal Air Force 7. Vendor client tools agnostic - experience of working with industry recognised organisations like Autodesk, Bentley, eSpatial, ESRI, Intergraph, PitneyBowes Business Insight and STAR APIC 8. Oracle Certified Partner - Oracle Certified Professional DBAs for Oracle Spatial consultancy and database set up and tuning. Also hosting and serving OS MasterMap® national coverage data in Oracle 9. ISO9001/TickIT assured continuously since February 199410.Supporting the Digital National Framework (DNF) in Great Britain and the UK Location Programme; actively involved in AGI Action Working Group for INSPIRE; only UK technology provider in ESDIN; co-chair of the OGC Data Quality Working Group and a sponsor of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. SOURCES: [ http://www.1spatial.com/pdf/40th.pdf ] [ http://www.1spatial.com/pdf/10things.pdf ] PRESSEMITTEILUNG < GI2009 > PRESS RELEASE from 1SPATIAL (UK): [ http://www.1spatial.com/news_events/news/news.php?news=293 ]