Cadcorp Limited is a British company established in 1991. Based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, U.K., it 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 Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Partner,Microsoft Spatial Partners an Ordnance Survey Licensed Developer Partner,Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner page and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information in the UK.
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,Informatix Inc., developer of MicroGDS (Wincad) Japan, through their UK subsidiaryInformatix Software International 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 management buyout of the company in May 2015.Changing hands at Cadcorp
In August 2025, NEC Software Solutions UK completed the acquisition of Cadcorp.
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 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".
Open geospatial consortium
Cadcorp has been a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1997. In 2004, Cadcorp's technical director, Martin Daly was awardedKenneth G. Gardels Citation for Martin Daly the OGC Kenneth G. Gardels Award,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 compliantCadcorp OGC compliance records in the categories of:
Simple Features for OLE/COMOGC Simple Features for OLE/COM Grid Coverage ServiceOGC Grid Coverage Service Coordinate Transformation ServiceOGC Coordinate Transformation Service Web Map Service Web Feature Service
Cadcorp SIS also implements support for:
Web Map Context DocumentsOGC Web Map Context Geography Markup Language Simple Features Web Coverage Service
Product overview
Cadcorp SIS is available in different forms:
desktopCadcorp desktop products serverCadcorp server products web mappingCadcorp web mapping products cloud hosting developer toolsCadcorp developer tools specialised applicationsCadcorp 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
External links Cadcorp website