Cadcorp

Computer Aided Development Corporation Ltd. (Cadcorp) is a British owned and run company established in 1991. Cadcorp has its headquarters in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, U.K.. Cadcorp has a network of distributors and value added resellers (VARs) around the world.[1]

Computer Aided Development Corporation Limited (Cadcorp)
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
FoundedBedford, Bedfordshire (1991)
HeadquartersStevenage, Hertfordshire, U.K. 51°53′50.70″N 0°12′21.52″W
ProductsCadcorp SIS
Cadcorp GeognoSIS
Cadcorp Web Map Layers
Websitewww.cadcorp.com

Cadcorp is an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certified company,[2] a Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Partner,[3] an Ordnance Survey Licensed Developer Partner,[4] and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in the U.K..[5]

History

Cadcorp's first product was a Microsoft Windows-based CAD system called Wincad. All rights to the product were sold in 1994. Wincad development and maintenance, carried out latterly by Informatix Inc.,[6] Japan, through their UK subsidiary[7] under the brand name MicroGDS, was stopped in March 2013.[8] After selling Wincad, Cadcorp moved on to developing geographic information system (GIS) software. The first version of Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System ("Cadcorp SIS") was released in 1995.

The leadership team successfully completed a management buyout of the company in May 2015.[9]

Market

Cadcorp SIS has applications in the following UK markets[10]

  • Government (local, municipal and central)
  • Emergency Services
  • Land and Property
  • Insurance
  • Oil and Gas
  • Utilities
  • Maritime
  • National Mapping Agencies

Products

In July 2020, Cadcorp SIS continued its support for data items of the Ordnance Survey (OS). Cadcorp SIS Desktop links directly to the recently launched Ordnance Survey Data Center in its latest software update.It has dedicated guides for linking to the OS Features API, the OS Maps API and the OS Vector Tile API. Both the OS Maps API and the OS Vector Tile API are used in the British National Grid and the coordinate database structures for "Web Mercator".[11]

Open geospatial consortium

Cadcorp has been a member[12] of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1997. In 2004, Cadcorp's technical director, Martin Daly was awarded[13] the OGC Kenneth G. Gardels Award,[14] made annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to advancing the OGC vision of geographic information fully integrated into the world's information systems.

Several versions of the Cadcorp SIS product suite are certified OGC compliant[15] in the categories of:

Cadcorp SIS also implements support for:

Product overview

Cadcorp SIS is available in different forms:

GIS data management tool

In February 2020, Cadcorp SIS ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is the newest contribution to a broad variety of vertical technologies unique to Cadcorp.[25]

In May 2020, Cadcorp also expanded its cloud services to include SIS Desktop, with the increasing growth of cloud computing technologies.[26]

References
  1. "Cadcorp Global Distributors and VARs". Archived from the original on 2008-04-07. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
  2. "Cadcorp ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification". Archived from the original on 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
  3. Microsoft Spatial Partners
  4. Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner page Archived June 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. "AGI Corporate Members Directory entry". Archived from the original on 2007-08-28. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
  6. Informatix Inc., developer of MicroGDS (Wincad)
  7. Informatix Software International
  8. "MicroGDS". microgds.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  9. Changing hands at Cadcorp
  10. "Cadcorp case studies". Archived from the original on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
  11. "Cadcorp SIS 9 service release enables direct link to Ordnance Survey Data Hub". GISuser. 31 July 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  12. "OGC Members | OGC". www.opengeospatial.org. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  13. Kenneth G. Gardels Citation for Martin Daly
  14. Kenneth G. Gardels award
  15. Cadcorp OGC compliance records
  16. OGC Simple Features for OLE/COM
  17. OGC Grid Coverage Service
  18. OGC Coordinate Transformation Service
  19. OGC Web Map Context
  20. Cadcorp desktop products
  21. Cadcorp server products
  22. Cadcorp web mapping products
  23. Cadcorp developer tools
  24. Cadcorp specialised applications
  25. "Cadcorp launches GIS data management tool". gisuser. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  26. "Cadcorp launches desktop GIS capability in the cloud". directionsmag. 11 May 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
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