Cadcorp Explained
Cadcorp Limited 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]
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 in the UK.[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
- Environment
- National Mapping Agencies
Products
In July 2020, Cadcorp SIS continued its support for data items of the Ordnance Survey (OS). Cadcorp SIS links directly to the Ordnance Survey Data Hub. 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.[26]
In May 2020, Cadcorp also expanded its cloud services to include SIS Desktop, with the increasing growth of cloud computing technologies.[27]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Cadcorp Global Distributors and VARs . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20220421085649/https://www.cadcorp.com/about-us/partners/ . 2022-04-21 .
- Web site: Cadcorp ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification .
- http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/spatial-partners.aspx Microsoft Spatial Partners
- https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/partner-member/cadcorp Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner page
- Web site: AGI Corporate Members Directory entry . 2008-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070828152554/http://www.agi.org.uk/pooled/profiles/BF_COMP/view.asp?Q=BF_COMP_33984# . 2007-08-28 . dead .
- http://www.informatix.co.jp Informatix Inc., developer of MicroGDS (Wincad)
- http://www.informatix.co.uk Informatix Software International
- Web site: MicroGDS. microgds.co.uk. 2018-04-25.
- http://www.cadcorp.com/news-events/changing-hands-at-cadcorp Changing hands at Cadcorp
- Web site: Cadcorp case studies .
- Web site: 31 July 2020. Cadcorp SIS 9 service release enables direct link to Ordnance Survey Data Hub. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200802013558/https://gisuser.com/2020/07/cadcorp-sis-9-service-release-enables-direct-link-to-ordnance-survey-data-hub/ . 2020-08-02 . 28 August 2020. GISuser.
- Web site: OGC Members . www.opengeospatial.org. en. 2018-04-25.
- http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=9498 Kenneth G. Gardels Citation for Martin Daly
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards Kenneth G. Gardels award
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/compliant/#Cadcorp Cadcorp OGC compliance records
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfo OGC Simple Features for OLE/COM
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gc OGC Grid Coverage Service
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ct OGC Coordinate Transformation Service
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmc OGC Web Map Context
- https://www.cadcorp.com/products/desktop-gis/ Cadcorp desktop products
- https://www.cadcorp.com/products/server/ Cadcorp server products
- https://www.cadcorp.com/products/web-mapping/ Cadcorp web mapping products
- Web site: Cloud Hosting . 2022-04-21 . GIS & Web Mapping Software for Sharing Spatial Data Cadcorp . en-GB.
- https://www.cadcorp.com/products/developer-tools/ Cadcorp developer tools
- https://www.cadcorp.com/products/applications/ Cadcorp applications
- Web site: 3 February 2020. Cadcorp launches GIS data management tool. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200630042234/https://gisuser.com/2020/02/cadcorp-launches-gis-data-management-tool/ . 2020-06-30 . 30 June 2020. gisuser.
- Web site: 11 May 2020. Cadcorp launches desktop GIS capability in the cloud. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200519190619/https://www.directionsmag.com/pressrelease/9789 . 2020-05-19 . 30 June 2020. directionsmag.
