Cadcorp and Limehouse Software form partnership to provide GIS-enabled planning consultation and document creation solutions
New solutions will streamline the consultation process between local authorities, citizens and stake-holders.
Stevenage and London, UK, 28 April, 2008. Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp and document creation, publishing and consultation solutions provider Limehouse Software have announced a technology partnership in which they will cooperate to deliver GIS-enabled solutions to address the collaboration, document creation and stake-holder engagement challenges faced by public and private-sector organisations.
The decision to create a formal partnership was prompted by the fact that both companies share many local authority customers that have a need to combine the power of mapping capabilities and planning-related consultation activities. Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System desktop and GeognoSIS web-based digital mapping/GIS software is used by many local authorities to underpin their e-government initiatives in areas such as planning, building control and land charges, etc. while Limehouse Software’s ucreate and uengage solutions are widely used in the same areas to facilitate policy creation and publishing processes and improve public consultation.
Under the partnership agreement, Cadcorp and Limehouse Software will work together to develop customised solutions that match individual customer’s needs and that provide a two-way link between Cadcorp’s digital mapping/GIS facilities and Limehouse Software’s solutions. As a result, users will be able to incorporate interactive maps into documents and consultation portals relating to planning policy and proposals, enabling interested parties, including citizens and partner organisations, to navigate between the documents and the maps and to add comments or to suggest changes, using the web.
"This provides our customers with considerably enhanced capabilities”, said Linsay Duncan, marketing director, Limehouse Software. “Not only does it enable an interactive, graphical view of planning applications within the planning documents, which will greatly help the consultation process, but it helps improve the accuracy of map-related representations.”
Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp, added, “By linking interactive maps to planning documents in this way and by making the information available to all interested parties via the web for comment will help local authorities meet their obligations by enabling Citizen’s Panels to easily and effectively collaborate on planning applications during the consultation process”
The technology partnership between the two companies takes effect immediately.
The decision to create a formal partnership was prompted by the fact that both companies share many local authority customers that have a need to combine the power of mapping capabilities and planning-related consultation activities. Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System desktop and GeognoSIS web-based digital mapping/GIS software is used by many local authorities to underpin their e-government initiatives in areas such as planning, building control and land charges, etc. while Limehouse Software’s ucreate and uengage solutions are widely used in the same areas to facilitate policy creation and publishing processes and improve public consultation.
Under the partnership agreement, Cadcorp and Limehouse Software will work together to develop customised solutions that match individual customer’s needs and that provide a two-way link between Cadcorp’s digital mapping/GIS facilities and Limehouse Software’s solutions. As a result, users will be able to incorporate interactive maps into documents and consultation portals relating to planning policy and proposals, enabling interested parties, including citizens and partner organisations, to navigate between the documents and the maps and to add comments or to suggest changes, using the web.
"This provides our customers with considerably enhanced capabilities”, said Linsay Duncan, marketing director, Limehouse Software. “Not only does it enable an interactive, graphical view of planning applications within the planning documents, which will greatly help the consultation process, but it helps improve the accuracy of map-related representations.”
Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp, added, “By linking interactive maps to planning documents in this way and by making the information available to all interested parties via the web for comment will help local authorities meet their obligations by enabling Citizen’s Panels to easily and effectively collaborate on planning applications during the consultation process”
The technology partnership between the two companies takes effect immediately.