Cadcorp
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | Bedford, Bedfordshire (1991) |
| Headquarters | Stevenage, Hertfordshire, U.K. 51°53′50.70″N 0°12′21.52″W / 51.8974167°N 0.2059778°W |
| Industry | Software Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
| Products | Cadcorp SIS Cadcorp GeognoSIS Cadcorp apSIS Cadcorp mSIS |
| Website | www.cadcorp.com |
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., a development office in London and a regional office in Boston, U.S. Cadcorp has a network of distributors and value added resellers (VARs) around the world[1].
Cadcorp is an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certified company[2], an Oracle Corporation partner[3], a Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Partner [4], an Ordnance Survey Licenced Developer Partner[5], and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in the U.K.[6].
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History
Cadcorp’s first product was a Microsoft Windows-based CAD system called Wincad. Rights to the product were sold in 1994. Wincad continues to be developed and maintained by Informatix Inc.[7], Japan, through their UK subsidiary[8] although it is now named MicroGDS. 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.
Market
Cadcorp SIS has applications in the following markets[9]
- Government (local, municipal and central)
- Emergency Services
- Land and Property
- Insurance
- Oil and Gas
- Utilities
- Maritime
- National Mapping Agencies
Open Geospatial Consortium
Cadcorp has been a Technical Committee[10] member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1997. In 2004, Cadcorp’s technical director, Martin Daly was awarded[11] the OGC Kenneth G. Gardels Award[12], made annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to advancing the OGC vision of geographic information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.
The Cadcorp SIS product suite is certified OGC compliant[13] in the categories of:
- Simple Features for OLE/COM[14]
- Grid Coverage Service[15]
- Coordinate Transformation Service[16]
- Web Map Service
- Web Feature Service
Cadcorp SIS also implements support for:
- Web Map Context Documents[17]
- Geography Markup Language
- Simple Features
- Web Coverage Service
- Web Catalog Service
Product Overview
Cadcorp SIS is available in different forms:
- desktop GIS[18]
- server/web-based GIS[19]
- developer kits[20] and associated Active X runtime licences[21]
References
- ↑ Cadcorp Global Distributors and VARs
- ↑ Cadcorp ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification
- ↑ Oracle Spatial Partners
- ↑ Microsoft Spatial Partners
- ↑ Ordnance Survey Licenced Partner page
- ↑ AGI Corporate Members Directory entry
- ↑ Informatix Inc., developer of MicroGDS (Wincad)
- ↑ Informatix Software International
- ↑ Cadcorp case studies
- ↑ OGC Technical Committee membership
- ↑ Kenneth G. Gardels Citation for Martin Daly
- ↑ Kenneth G. Gardels award
- ↑ Cadcorp OGC compliance records
- ↑ OGC Simple Features for OLE/COM
- ↑ OGC Grid Coverage Service
- ↑ OGC Coordinate Transformation Service
- ↑ OGC Web Map Context
- ↑ Cadcorp desktop products
- ↑ Cadcorp web-based products
- ↑ Cadcorp developer kits
- ↑ Cadcorp Active X runtime licences
