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[412069] 02/8/2013 11:51

Cheers mw.

[mwaller] 02/8/2013 10:01

Morning all Just been doing a bit more research for those interested in more details around yesterday's press release on ELF (European Location Framework) . At a headline what I find encouraging is this announcement further cements SPAs core reputation and track record as a world class key infrastructure provider to major bodies and organisations requiring mission critical spatial data solutions. It further validates our understanding there are not any viable alternate places besides SPA you can go to for managing the scaleable high demand Spatial Big Data lifecycle management processes. Looking forwards besides some share of a €13m 3 year plus long term revenue stream, and spin off services enabled from this ELF platform, this reference can only help SPA new business growth as more and more organisations who have pressing and growing spatial big data problems will look for proof of scaleability, capability and safe reputation by selecting a high caliber vendor/ consortium to deliver them their respective can't fail must scale solutions - and now with Star they can cover this off end to end, taking an even bigger share of the possible pie. With this announcement we see that SPA continues to establish a very credible foothold in key large scale reference markets that lock them in and others out for the very long term. As capability, stakes capacity and solution demands grow, other market dynamics kick in - the risks for prospective clients get lower dealing with SPA and higher with alternatives (eg former OS/Tadpole) -(government led / backed organisations especially) creating an established SPA beachhead for future growth and bolt on services as the market and customer organisation and services offerings further evolve with increased capabilities, demand and utility . In summary all round positive news very much in the big picture and key proof points we are still on a good track. Here are some supporting details I picked up: We were all aware of the UK OS and US census, but this European ELF programme is of greater stature - as its harmonisation and publishing data on a European interoperability level - turning the EU into a single "pan european multi-country mapping agency" from a spatial data lifecycle management perspective, with the customers eyes (ELF Sponsors) then set further on the global spatial data interoperability vision. This can only be good news. This is a huge long term scale and undertaking, this tranche lasting three years and already stated for consortium members beyond - also reaching down into the countries and specialist data providers, and stimulating the building out a myriad of value added services on this Pan European to local newly created and presented dataset. The ELF programme and the constituent parties - from other national mapping agencies to other consortium members is using SPA engines to do the heavy spatial data lifting. This is key. What I find most encouraging in the big picture, is that this just builds a huge credibility on scale and further presence and reputation in Europe - that's also a synergy to Star - and stems back to earlier work started by SPA at the EU level in 2007, on a programme as a precursor to ELF (INSPIRE - see below) and ties in also with the UK OS, also as one of the national member bodies to ELF. They are starting to own the whole Spatial Data Value Chain from local to national to supranational (Euro Regional) and a plotted path to global from this base. They also now with Star have the ability to bundle data and services to the downstream data providers and consumers at all these different levels. The upside potential for addressable market is therefore huge and just got closer. As these cross nation and within nation foundation platforms come online powered by SPA engines I fully expect we will start to see this playing out in various ways commercially for SPA. Below some research with excerpts that highlight the above perspectives and in particular SPA customer and consortium member perspectives that influence my view...if you want to read the details for background go ahead the white paper is very educational for those that are in the mood for a spatial soaking ;-) Press release 10th July UK OS - scope and perspective and outlook for ELF the full release goes into much more detail http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/european-location-framework-project-one-reference-geo-information-service-f/338971 ...John Carpenter, Ordnance Survey's Director of Strategy, said: "Together with organisations across Europe, including UK partners, this project (ELF) has provided an opportunity for Ordnance Survey to contribute to and deliver a European spatial data infrastructure (SDI). The project shows how government, industry and academia can sucessfully work together in supporting the wider use of geo-information and enable the creation of innovative value-added services."The ELF platform will add value to INSPIRE data by accomplishing cross border harmonisation to enable INSPIRE services to be utilised and shared, provide easy access and connection to SME applications, and provide authoritative National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) data to inform European policy decision making.""The consortium is committed to continue to provide the ELF Platform beyond the end of the project, to enable growth in the use and re-use of trustworthy, accurate and re-usable official reference geo-information on not only a European, but global level.News April 2011 (approx) foundation programme to ELF showing track record key role and SPA core USP in managing spatial data lifecycle and positive reputation earned across the consortium leading to ELF...the release has more...http://www.geoconnexion.com/news/more-work-for-1spatial-following-esdin-project/Cambridge-based 1Spatial has announced the successful conclusion of the European Spatial Data Infrastructure with a Best Practice Network (ESDIN) project and the company's new engagement with EuroGeographics to assist with the data quality assurance of their EuroRegionalMap (ERM) data.......A path has been prepared for on-going development and delivery of processes, specifications and interoperable service prototypes in addition to the elaboration of the European Location Framework (ELF).The data quality and edge matching recommendations, demonstrated with 1Spatial's Radius Studio solution, were well received by the partners involved in the project. As a result, EuroGeographics has engaged 1Spatial to exploit the outcomes of ESDIN and use a Radius Studio-based, automatic data quality evaluation solution to assist in the cost and time effective delivery of high quality ERM data to Eurostat in January 2012.Dr Antti Jakobsson, Programme Manager for EuroGeographics said: "We selected 1Spatial to continue the quality work in order to establish ESDIN results in our EuroRegionalMap production line. Our aim is to use best practices for the quality evaluation and to ensure that our products meet high standards. Our customers want reliable and consistent products so that they may use them for analysing environment change, risk analysis and other geospatial analysis. Therefore we think quality is our number one priority...INSPIRE - background - in which SPA also played a pivotal role to members in getting their data into shape and compliant for INSPIRE interoperability standards and processes - a foundation for ELF. INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) is a European Directive which aims to establish an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe to support Community environmental policies, and policies or activities, which may have an impact on the environment. It comprises legislation to make data and services discoverable and interoperable across Europe. As a result of this legislation, public sector data providers across Europe are now starting to publish their data to common specifications and using common web service standards, thus making the data and services interoperable across Europe. For more information see: ELF white paper... That covers off a lot of the stuff that SPA does in Data QAhttp://www.elfproject.eu/sites/default/files/ELF%20White%20Paper.pdf

[hubshank] 01/8/2013 15:34

31-Jan-13 12.08 (4.78) (0.08)p n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
a. Based on UK GAAP presentation of accounts - includes discontinued activities

1Spatial Forecasts
Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Jan-14 18.61 0.09 0.02p 328.0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
31-Jan-15 24.16 1.62 0.20p 39.4 0.1 +733% n/a 0.0%
1Spatial forecasts


Not sure if today's announcement included in this forecast, will keep watching and if changes, will post accordingly. Always useful to know what the Brokers think, even if they do sometimes talk nonsense!

[412069] 01/8/2013 15:02

Looks like they have woken up to things.

[412069] 01/8/2013 13:38

mwaller...do your stuff.

[mwaller] 01/8/2013 13:32

Must have! Good news - thx for posting. Looks like this is a really interesting development. I will do some more digging. The start of things to come...!

[412069] 01/8/2013 12:21

They must of seen my last post eh.

[412069] 01/8/2013 12:20

Wakey wakey boys some good news today.

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1Spatial chosen for European Location Framework Project (ELF) One Reference Geo-Information Service For Europe

Cambridge, UK, 1st August 2013: 1Spatial Group Limited has confirmed it is taking a consortium role in the European Location Framework (ELF) project, set up to deliver up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, cross-border reference geo-data to be accessed by the European public and private sectors.

The project is being supported by a consortium of partners across Europe. The work is being co-funded by the European Commission and represents a total project investment of €13M over the three year term of the project. ELF will deliver a pan-European cloud service built on the work of the INSPIRE directive. The INSPIRE directive came into force in 2007 and was established to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure, to share data among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial data across the region.

ELF, launched in March this year, has been designed to grow the wider use of geo-information and enable the creation of innovative value-added services. This includes encouraging content creation by SMEs both inside and outside the consortium.

"We are delighted to be part of the ELF consortium to provide products and expertise around our core strengths of data quality management, automated generalisation and edge-matching and look forward to working with the rest of the members on the project," commented Marcus Hanke, Chief Executive of 1Spatial.

"The project will define the role of geospatial data in Europe and is a signpost for a global geospatial management system for the future," added Marcus Hanke.

The consortium is committed to supporting the ELF Platform beyond the end of the project, to create a trustworthy and sustainable framework of public sector reference geo-data in various levels of detail.

The consortium consists of 30 partners across Europe. UK partners involved in the project, in addition to 1Spatial, include Europa Technologies Limited, Ordnance Survey Great Britain, Snowflake Software Limited, Open Geospatial Consortium Limited and Netrius Management Services Limited. To find out more visit hxxp://www.elfproject.eu/

[412069] 30/7/2013 08:58

Morning all, we could do with a touch of good news, another census or survey contract would do, or Star pitching in with some.

[robbo35] 27/7/2013 21:58

Has the ship finally sunk? Not looked at this for a while and it doesn't look pretty, not one of Mark Slaters better tips!!!

Any chance of this recovering?

[412069] 19/7/2013 18:35

Team scored 85 points 15 better than last year prizes to be won happy days.

[geegeeuk] 19/7/2013 14:55

Did you make the cut 412069?

[412069] 19/7/2013 12:58

Playing golf and watching your fav share rise does it get any better!

[loss-leader] 19/7/2013 08:41

fyi .. this meeting of the spatial data clans just happens to be coming to 1spatial's hometown of Cambridge next week..

"A unique gathering of Directors and Chief Executives from National Mapping and Cadastre Agencies from around the world, which takes place every 4 years and has done since 1928. This year coupled with the Third session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM3) www.cambridgeconference.com and ggim.un.org"

ll

[yump] 17/7/2013 13:20

PS
imo there is never an excuse for keeping investors in the dark about likely revenue growth - its not giving anything away - but it is putting the BOD in the firing line - which they should be after all - but not all BOD's like that - whatever salary they are drawing that might justify the personal risk.

[geegeeuk] 17/7/2013 12:00

Yes, I can see where Yump is coming from on the limited information on pipeline, but am not surprised by that as there must be a lot of work going on behind the scenes bringing the new company on board and launching the new products. This is clearly an ever expanding area that I feel 1Spatial is in a great position to flourish in with their offering, and seeing mwaller's posts and the latest report from NPlus 1 Singer I feel confident in the future of my investment

[peterwaller395] 17/7/2013 10:20

MWALLER

Thanks. Great Post

[412069] 17/7/2013 08:53

Nice start todays lads, and the suns still shining magic.

[mwaller] 16/7/2013 18:30

Evening all. The Tadpole story piqued my interest and I did more digging to see where things are now at with ESRI. I think the interesting thing is we got some solid proof points that the way the market is playing out and positioning of SPA is sound. We all now know the Tadpole/ESRI failure at OS proves that SPA has world class technology. However here is proof ESRI, the biggest player in the Spatial market, still to this day cannot solve the problem that hit them in OS. They probably can't due to their technology limitation. Right now the situation is they are forced to find new ways to plug the expanding hole in their portfolio as the market trends more and more towards mobile and spatial big data lifecycle management, in the process reenforcing SPAs key position and opportunity. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sap-delivers-real-time-spatial-100000123.htmlExcerpt Intro: SAP and ESRI Market Making for SPASAN DIEGO, July 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (SAP) today announced it has joined forces with Esri, a leading geographic information system (GIS) and location analytics provider, to more deeply integrate GIS solutions with platforms and enterprise applications from SAP in order to improve business efficiency and decision-making. Esri and SAP are committed to helping SAP customers and the spatial data industry benefit from integration between SAP® solutions and Esri's leading GIS platform. The announcement was made at the 2013 Esri International User Conference, being held July 8-12 in San Diego.Excerpt - that shows what's in it for ESRI - to try fix their spatial data engine performance problem ##Native High-Performance Processing of Spatial Data Using SAP HANA.... Furthermore, Esri and SAP intend to optimize connectivity between Esri ArcGIS and SAP HANA via Query Layers, #...which will allow Esri ArcGIS users to push spatial processing into SAP HANA, unleashing high-performing and real-time capabilities...#Excerpt 2 shows what's in it for ESRI to fix their mobile workforce problem, and try address the developing market opportunity for mobile ESRI ArcGIS Integration with SAP Mobile Platform for Location-based Work ManagementSAP plans to add new integration using the SDK for SAP Mobile Platform to extend companies' geospatial data from ESRI ArcGIS systems to mobile field employees. Similar to desktop systems, SAP Mobile Platform is planned to enable application users to manipulate interactive maps and to obtain extremely detailed information on the geographic region in question. By tying into SAP Business Suite, mobile apps like SAP® Work Manager and SAP® CRM Service Manager are intended to effectively combine business process information like work orders, parts inventory levels and historical asset information with geospatial data to give mobile users an extremely rich, multi-system work environment. For instance, SAP plans to enable mobile users to efficiently find jobs and assets nearby, filter for equipment by location and view work orders from a map. Such use cases can serve to completely eliminate paper data entry and the hunt for the right information."Esri ArcGIS is the leading platform for organizations implementing a location analytics strategy through the geo-enablement of their enterprise business systems," said Chris Cappelli, director, Sales, Esri. "By working with SAP to integrate ArcGIS across SAP HANA, analytic solutions and SAP Mobile Platform, intends that customers can easily leverage Esri within their SAP landscape."---This is good news in the big picture. It shows the other biggest players in enterprise software see the SPA market, and must now invest to further develop it and keep up. ESRI still does not have the engine and has turned to SAP, giving the core advantage to SPA. Why? SPA for its part - post placing can now compete and deliver the end to end solution with their new Management suite, incorporating 1Edit for mobile and Star Apic front end. This covers off the key functionality from a single vendor. (Without the same technology limitation) The PR and the marketing push of these global firms will continue to help develop opportunities. Prospects will before they buy want to see a proven working solution as an alternative to the SAP/ESRI marriage. They need a second horse in the race. When they look, there is only one place to go. When partnered with Oracle SPA have the muscle too. With the US census client they already have a strategic foothold in the NA market. Think about it - things really are getting lined up and warmed up. We will start to see this playing out!

[nickb] 16/7/2013 14:47

Yump

Just because you are out does not mean you should not continue to post your view

[412069] 16/7/2013 13:13

Yump, your views on PSA are welcome by me mate.
Your my IT expert on here, anything you want to know about scaffolding im your man.

[yump] 16/7/2013 12:53

Edited. Promised myself not to post any more as out.