C U at the UC? ETL brainstorming in Whistler

Safe Software is hosting its annual user conference next week in Whistler, and several members of the ICIS team will be there. Spatial ETL technology (extract, transform and load) lies at the heart of the BC Spatial project, and I'll be on the lookout to chisel away at some of my pet favorite questions:

• What opportunities does the server technology provide for facilitating ICIS' load, integration and distribution processes?
• Who else is leveraging this technology to provide similar solutions, what approaches have they taken, and what has been their experience?

The powerful data transformation capabilities speak for themselves as a natural fit to our challenge of building a consistent cadastre from disparate sources, but leave unresolved some practical and philosophical questions about where data standardization is best applied.

If you are planning to be in Whistler next week, I'd love to stew over some of these with you. If we don't bump into each other, you can reach me here to set up a meet!