Spatial Data Loading Blog

SuperpOSe 5.1, the latest version of the OS MasterMap to Oracle SDO loading and extraction tool from Dotted Eyes, has been shipped to all existing customers. This latest version represents an exciting development to the product, and introduces a number of new and improved functions:

• Ability to Compose/Extract historic OS MasterMap data - Users who are storing historic OS MasterMap data (via Change-only Updates) can now use this to recreate a map based on a date of their choosing, using either the version date of objects as recorded by Ordnance Survey, or the date the objects were processed by the user into their holding.

• Ability to save extraction options as favourites and batch together - Extraction options can now be saved for a particular run, and re-used at a later date, without having to fill in the options again. Multiple favourites can also be set to automatically run one after the other, allowing for a number of runs to be carried out overnight/weekend, making better use of time.

• Ability to Compose/Extract by custom polygons - As well as the existing options to Compose/Extract the entire holding, or via a minimum bounding rectangle, users can now choose to use custom polygons. This could be used to extract certain counties of data, for example, or individual site centred plots for hundreds of areas, without significant user interaction. By combining these three new features together, it is possible to carry out complex and time-consuming processing that would not have been feasible before.

• Speed optimisations - The rules processing engine has been revised to deliver a further significant speed increase, as well as overall optimisations to the program.

• Self-updating schema - SuperpOSe is now ’schema aware’, and is able to detect if the existing schema has become out of date compared to the latest SuperpOSe schema. In this case, the user can elect to use SuperpOSe to automatically update the schema to the current version. This ensures the user’s holding schema will always be consistent with the latest version.

• New administration options - New administration options have been added to SuperpOSe, such as the option to analyse spatial index performance, provide total feature counts, load and view custom polygons, and validate/update the schema.

• Support for Oracle 11g - SuperpOSe v5.1 has been designed with the latest developments from Oracle in mind, and supports Oracle Database 11g.

For more information, contact info@dottedeyes.com

New releases of Dotted Eyes’ OS MasterMap loading tool, InterpOSe, and NTF Loader, TranspOSe, have been released. Releases have been sent to all clients with maintenance contracts. See below for version changes:
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InterpOSe (v4.6)

• An updated version of the FME components used to write the various output formats;
• DWG and DXF files may be written in AutoCAD Release 2007 format;
• DWT template files can be edited in AutoCAD Release 2007 format;
• Compatibility with EDINA Digimap data files, as supplied to the academic community;
• OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 may be processed in its Final Release form as well as its First Release form. This data set includes OWPAs (Objects Without Postal Addresses) and MOWPAs (Multi-occupancy Buildings Without Postal Addresses) and also alternative address formats such as the Welsh language and BS7666 style;
• A Full Supply of Address Layer 2 can be processed. InterpOSe v4.6 will also apply Change-Only Update to the Postal theme, if required.

The Address Layer 2 data set is considerably more complex than the original Address Layer, and accordingly we recommend that it should be stored in a database, particularly if you intend to use Change-Only Update.

A simplified version of InterpOSe is available to institutions of higher and further education, for teaching and research purposes. It processes data supplied through the EDINA Digimap service, but not the data set supplied by Ordnance Survey, and it has restricted functionality.

We will continue to develop InterpOSe, and intend to enable Change-Only Updates to be applied to all themes in Address Layer 2 in future releases.

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TranspOSe (v9.1)

• The underlying Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) engine that drives TranspOSe has been updated;
• AutoCAD support has been extended to include the latest output release, 2004 and 2007;
• ESRI Style files are now available to enhance styling support for features in ESRI GIS software.