Cadcorp
Encyclopedia
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.
and a development office in London
. 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, an Oracle Corporation
partner, a Microsoft SQL Server
Spatial Partner , an Ordnance Survey
Licenced Developer Partner, and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in the U.K.
.
-based CAD system called Wincad. Rights to the product were sold in 1994. Wincad continues to be developed and maintained by Informatix Inc., Japan
, through their UK subsidiary 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.
(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 worlds information systems.
The Cadcorp SIS product suite is certified OGC compliant in the categories of:
Cadcorp SIS also implements support for:
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
owned and run company established in 1991. Cadcorp has its headquarters in Stevenage
Stevenage
Stevenage is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated to the east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1, and is between Letchworth Garden City to the north, and Welwyn Garden City to the south....
, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
, U.K.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and a development office in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. 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, an Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
partner, a Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
Spatial Partner , an Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...
Licenced Developer Partner, and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in the U.K.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
History
Cadcorp’s first product was a Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
-based CAD system called Wincad. Rights to the product were sold in 1994. Wincad continues to be developed and maintained by Informatix Inc., Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, through their UK subsidiary although it is now named MicroGDS. After selling Wincad, Cadcorp moved on to developing geographic information system (GIS)
Geographic Information System
A geographic information system, geographical information science, or geospatial information studies is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographically referenced data...
software. The first version of Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System ("Cadcorp SIS") was released in 1995.
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
Open Geospatial Consortium
Cadcorp has been a Technical Committee member of the Open Geospatial ConsortiumOpen Geospatial Consortium
The Open Geospatial Consortium , an international voluntary consensus standards organization, originated in 1994. In the OGC, more than 400 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in a consensus process encouraging development and implementation of open...
(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 worlds information systems.
The Cadcorp SIS product suite is certified OGC compliant in the categories of:
- Simple Features for OLE/COM
- Grid Coverage Service
- Coordinate Transformation Service
- Web Map ServiceWeb Map ServiceA Web Map Service is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server using data from a GIS database...
- Web Feature ServiceWeb Feature ServiceThe Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service Interface Standard provides an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls...
Cadcorp SIS also implements support for:
- Web Map Context Documents
- Geography Markup LanguageGeography Markup LanguageThe Geography Markup Language is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic transactions on the Internet...
- Simple FeaturesSimple FeaturesSimple feature access , is both an OpenGIS and ISO Standard that specifies a common storage model of geographical data using well-known text . The geometries are also associated with spatial reference systems...
- Web Coverage ServiceWeb Coverage ServiceThe Open Geospatial Consortium Web Coverage Service Interface Standard provides an interface allowing requests for geographical coverages across the web using platform-independent calls...
- Web Catalog ServiceWeb Catalog ServiceThe OGC Catalog Service defines common interfaces to discover, browse, and query metadata about data, services, and other potential resources.Web Catalog Service includes several profiles including Catalog Service - Web.-See also:*Web Map Service...
Product Overview
Cadcorp SIS is available in different forms:- desktop GIS
- server/web-based GIS
- developer kits and associated Active X runtime licences