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German City of Melle invests in Cadcorp SIS

The City of Melle is located the province of Lower Saxony which is a beautiful area of north west Germany. Melle is a smaller city but carries one of largest jurisdictions in this region, some 250,000 square kilometres and has a population of 50,000. Melle is surrounded by rural areas and belongs to the Osnabruck district.

The City of Melle council manages the environment very well and ensures that the beauty and cleanliness of the region is maintained to the highest standards. The council already have extensive experience of using GIS, but recently through a local company, Promegis (a business partner and reseller of Cadcorp products), they procured 5 licences of Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System desktop software as a pilot system to determine its suitability for various Council departments.


	Dr. Kassing. Second Chief, City of Melle, who decided upon Cadcorp SIS

Melle have subsequently increased their use of Cadcorp products by purchasing the Cadcorp SIS Internet Developer Kit (IDK). This is to build Intranet and Internet applications for the municipality based on planning applications, land use, amenities, local interest, route maps, and location maps. Melle were suitably impressed not only with the functional capabilities of the IDK but also by it's ease of specific application development.

Herr Heinz Garlich who heads up the GIS implementation of Cadcorp SIS along with his colleague Herr Bachmann are working closely with Promegis to ensure a successful implementation. The Managing Director of Promegis, Klaus Scholle remarked that due to the City of Melle, Cadcorp SIS is now established in Lower Saxony where other local authorities are looking at Cadcorp SIS to replace their legacy systems. “The biggest benefit is being able to work alongside and being able to accept and translate data from other existing GIS products. This is an ideal situation for local government implementation, where fragmented data is commonplace”. One of the major strengths of Cadcorp SIS is the ability to import and export a wide variety of GIS, CAD, Image and database formats, which allows the product to fit in easily to existing corporate GIS structures.

Germany is virtually unique in Europe by not having a national mapping agency with one single data format. All spatial data is specified by the various Bundesland of which Lower Saxony is one of sixteen. Each of the Bundesland has their own format for map information, which is known as the EDBS format. This format is very complex and dates back to the mid ‘70’s. Cadcorp have also developed a translator to read the Lower Saxony EDBS data format and now working on formats for the rest of Germany.

Applications being tackled by the City of Melle include planning applications and their approval. By accessing information from the GIS database, the planning department can determine land ownership and make informed decisions on the available land and type of planning required. This could be for any use such as housing, industrial, recreational, and agricultural.

Like many cities in Europe, the City of Melle is proud of its commitment to cycle routes to help provide an effective means of transportation that is both quick and environmentally friendly. The use of Cadcorp SIS in this application is important for the city who wishes to ensure that the cycle routes are well defined and provide the citizens with the optimum route information. The system is used to build and maintain the symbology rules that ensure separation between cyclists and motorized transport. The cycle routes are signposted and marked out to ensure that each route is able to provide cyclists with the correct information for their journey across the city. The system is also used for cycle route updating to provide the public with new route information and maintain an environmentally friendly approach. The system uses ‘hot-links’ on the street furniture to provide photographic information of the cycle network at strategic points.

About Cadcorp SIS

Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System - is a suite of Windows-based and Web-enabled end user and developer digital mapping and geographic information system (GIS) software products. The suite comprises: Map Viewer, which provides support for over 45 graphic and data formats, thematics and hard copy; Map Manager, which provides the mainstream user the ability to view, explore, query, symbolise and print digital map and associated tabular data; Map Editor, which in addition to the facilities provided by Map Manager, provides the GIS data custodian with tools to view, manage and edit map and tabular data; and Map Modeller, which adds 3D modelling, terrain analysis and several thematic and analytic mapping tools.

Cadcorp ASC (Active Server Component) extends the functionality of Cadcorp SIS for use over the Internet or a company-wide intranet. It is a dynamic, server-side Web-based GIS, not merely a map publishing tool for pre-authored images. Cadcorp ASC provides a true, interactive Web-based solution for real time map creation and analysis.

About Cadcorp

Established in 1991, Cadcorp is a leading developer of digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software. With offices in the USA and UK, Cadcorp’s distribution and VAR network stretches world-wide. The company also plays a pivotal technical role in the OpenGIS Consortium. Cadcorp SIS is the only complete product family to currently attain OpenGIS conformance certification.

Cadcorp SIS (Spatial Information System) is a range of software modules covering spatial data viewing, data management, data editing, data modelling and analysis. Cadcorp SIS ActiveX components are available for embedding into third party systems. Cadcorp ASC is an Internet/intranet developer toolkit designed for Web based GIS solutions.

Cadcorp SIS applications exist in municipal government, central government, emergency services, insurance, Oil & Natural Gas, mapping and surveying, commerce, broadcasting and many other markets.

ENDS

For further information, contact: Chris Holcroft, Tel: 01438 747996, e-mail: chrish@cadcorp.com

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