Computer Aided Development Corporation Ltd. (Cadcorp) is a British owned and run company established in 1991. Cadcorp has its headquarters in

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Cadcorp has a network of distributors and value added resellers (VARs) around the world. Cadcorp is an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certified company, a

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Spatial Partner, an

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Licensed Developer Partner, and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in the UK.

History

Cadcorp's first product was a

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system called Wincad. All rights to the product were sold in 1994. Wincad development and maintenance, carried out latterly by Informatix Inc,

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, through their UK subsidiary under the brand name MicroGDS, was stopped in March 2013. 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

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of the company in May 2015.

Market

Cadcorp SIS has applications in the following UK markets * 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".

Open geospatial consortium

Cadcorp has been a member of the

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(OGC) since 1997. In 2004, Cadcorp's technical director, Martin Daly was awarded the OGC Kenneth G. Gardels Award, 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 in the categories of: * Simple Features for OLE/

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* Grid Coverage Service * Coordinate Transformation Service *

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Cadcorp SIS also implements support for: * Web Map Context Documents *

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Product overview

Cadcorp SIS is available in different forms: *

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cloud hosting
* developer tools * specialised applications

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

References

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External links

Cadcorp website
GIS companies Software companies of the United Kingdom