Cadcorp SIS selected by WMP Transport Authority

14 March 2008, 9:00am

Centro/West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority selects Cadcorp SIS as its new corporate GIS

Web-based system will enable information from existing, disparate systems to be shared throughout the organisation


Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer, Cadcorp, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Centro/West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority (WMPTA) for the supply and installation of Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System and Cadcorp GeognoSIS software to provide Centro with a web mapping facility.

Cadcorp SIS desktop software will be used by Centro’s GIS development team to develop a range of end-user applications, while GeognoSIS will be used to develop and power a web-based corporate GIS. This will make information from the new applications, as well as spatial information from the organisation’s existing, disparate GIS facilities, available to everyone via the corporate intranet.

Centro’s remit is to develop a public transport system for the West Midlands, on behalf of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority, that will encourage motorists to use it in preference to their cars. To support its work, the organisation had invested in a number of GIS from other vendors over the years. However, these GIS had been developed in isolation from each other to meet specific, individual needs.

The new Cadcorp SIS-based corporate GIS will serve to consolidate the information from these previous systems; to ensure that data regarding public transport is accurate; and to make spatial information readily available throughout the organisation in order to help it in its planning activities and to be more responsive to queries.

Among the reasons cited by Centro for its selection of Cadcorp SIS and GeognoSIS were the software’s ability, as standard and at no additional cost, to read and display and/or write to over 160 GIS, CAD, graphic and database formats on the fly, plus its ease of use and its value-for-money.

“The journey to a corporate GIS and the selection of Cadcorp SIS and GeognoSIS to power it was a tough one, involving a technology shift, countless reports from our consultants and other GIS users and a battle of hearts and minds,” said Jamill Usmani, MIS technical programme manager, Centro/WMPTA. “The end result is a GIS strategy that will stand us in good stead for the future and a GIS platform on which Centro/WMPTA will be able to grow.”

“The task that Centro/WMPTA has in terms of developing a 21st century public transport system for the West Midlands is a major one and we are proud that they selected Cadcorp SIS as the basis of a new corporate GIS that will help the organisation achieve its aims,” said Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp.

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