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Cadcorp

Software company in United Kingdom

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, an Ordnance Survey Licensed Developer Partner, and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information in the UK.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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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.2

The story

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, Japan, through their UK subsidiary 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.

In August 2025, NEC Software Solutions UK completed the acquisition of Cadcorp.

From Wikipedia’s article on Cadcorp, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Market

Cadcorp SIS has applications in the following UK markets

Government (local, municipal and central)

Emergency Services

Land and Property

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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".

Product overview

Cadcorp SIS is available in different forms:

desktop

server

web mapping

cloud hosting

developer tools

specialised applications

From Wikipedia’s article on Cadcorp, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

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