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Cadcorp announces Cadcorp Storm Tracker.

Digital mapping-based software enables users to visualise and track the path of hurricanes and other storms to aid catastrophe planning.

Cadcorp, the digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer, has announced the availability of a new, low-cost digital mapping software product, Cadcorp Storm Tracker.

Developed by Cadcorp to satisfy the requirements of insurance and re-insurance specialists and other organisations concerned with damage caused by hurricanes and other storms, Cadcorp Storm Tracker is a light-weight digital mapping application for the visualisation of hurricane storm tracks. Using data from the Unisys Weather Web site (www.weather.unisys.com/hurricane), a respected source for global storm data, Cadcorp Storm Tracker enables users to take live storm information, automatically convert it to geographical line features and visualise it over a digital map base. It also enables the user to export the resulting storm track to commonly-used GIS data interchange formats for integration into other software, such as catastrophe modelling products.

“Of the 14 named storms during the 2004 hurricane season, nine were hurricanes. Four of these made landfall in Florida causing an estimated 100 deaths and $20 billion in damage,” said Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp. “Already this year,” he added, “Hurricane Dennis, a category 4 hurricane which made landfall on Sunday, 10th July, has caused insured losses likely to be between $1 billion and $5 billion and further hurricanes and tropical storms are sure to follow this.”

“We have developed Cadcorp Storm Tracker to enable non-specialist users to rapidly visualise the geographical track of a storm using a cost effective and easy-to-use application,” he explained. “For organisations requiring hurricane foot-print impact analysis and rapid summation of loss, Cadcorp Storm Tracker can be used with the Cadcorp SIS range of desktop, Web and mobile digital mapping/GIS software.”

A fully functioning copy of Cadcorp Storm Tracker is available on the Cadcorp Web site for download. Its in-built evaluation licence will run until the end of September, 2005 after which users can purchase the software.

About Cadcorp

Established in 1991, Cadcorp is a leading UK developer of digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software. With offices in the UK, USA and Australia, Cadcorp's distribution and VAR network stretches worldwide. The company also plays a pivotal technical role in the Open Geospatial Consortium. Inc ® (OGC).

The Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System - product range is fully integrated digital mapping and GIS software that uses OGC® certified compliant interfaces. Cadcorp technical director Martin Daly is an OGC Gardels Medal holder for his contribution to the OGC. Cadcorp is an ISO9001:2000 certified company, an Ordnance Survey Licenced Partner and holds a UK government S-CAT agreement for category 15, GIS Software.

Cadcorp SIS applications exist in local government, central government, emergency services, insurance, oil & natural gas, mapping and surveying, commerce, utilities and many other markets.

ENDS

Editors: For further information contact: Richard Rollins, Tel: 01438 747996, e-mail: richard.rollins@cadcorp.com or Neil McLeod, Tel: 01666 504293, e-mail: neilmcleod@btopenworld.com

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