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Surrey Heath Borough Council selects Cadcorp’s desktop and Web-based GIS software to support its e-government objectives.

Cadcorp SIS will integrate with a wide variety of the council’s existing front and back-office applications.

Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp has announced that Surrey Heath Borough Council has awarded the company a contract for the provision of Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System - desktop and Web-based software, together with implementation and training services.

Under the terms of the contract, Cadcorp will deliver and assist Surrey Heath Borough Council in the implementation of a number of licences of Cadcorp SIS. These will include Cadcorp SIS Map Editor, Cadcorp SIS Map Modeller – the company’s flagship desktop GIS – and Cadcorp GeognoSIS.NET – the company’s Web-based GIS software suite.

Cadcorp SIS will initially be deployed in the land charges, planning and building control departments. This will be followed by the estate management and tree preservation groups and to staff in Surrey Heath’s new contact centre, which is currently under construction. In addition, the Web-based GeognoSIS.NET software will serve mapping information to staff over the council’s intranet in a bespoke application called Heathmap.

From the outset, council members and the senior management team at Surrey Heath Borough Council decided to implement a corporate-wide GIS across the authority. Underpinning this decision was the recognition that GIS will be a core part of the infrastructure required to take the council forward, both in terms of its e-government objectives and of the quality of service it offers the public.

“We selected Cadcorp SIS and the Web-based GeognoSIS.NET for a number of reasons”, said James Rutter, GIS manager, Surrey Heath Borough Council. “First, it’s easy to use and it’s fast at handling tasks such as digitizing vector data and handling large image files. Second, it has the ability at no extra cost, to directly read and write to over 120 native file formats and databases, including Oracle. This means that we can build a central repository in Oracle for all of our spatial data for everyone to access. Third, the Web-based GeognoSIS.NET software provides many of the facilities found in the desktop products and makes them available to a wider community over our internal intranet or the Internet.”

“We are delighted that Surrey Heath Borough Council has selected Cadcorp software as the basis of its new corporate-wide GIS”, said Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp. “I am confident that both our desktop and our Web-based products, along with our customer services, will live up to the council’s expectations and we look forward to helping them realise their GIS objectives.”

About Surrey Heath Borough Council

Located in the south of England, the Borough of Surrey Heath covers 36.5 square miles, with Camberley its main town and several villages set amongst wild areas of open heath and pine and birch woodlands. It is home to over 80,000 people. Surrey Heath is renowned for nursery and market gardening. However, the area is also popular with new technology firms and has strong commercial and industrial centres providing a vibrant economy. It also has strong military connections, with the UK Army’s Staff College being in Camberley, the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and the Royal Logistics Corps headquarters at Deepcut.

About Cadcorp

Established in 1991, Cadcorp is a leading 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.

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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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