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Policing migration to OS MasterMap
Gloucestershire Police has selected Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System and the Cadcorp SIS OS MasterMap to NTF Exporter to support its migration to OS MasterMap digital map data, while retaining the use of its existing digital mapping/GIS facilities.
“While we had acknowledged that there are benefits to be gained from moving to OS MasterMap data for our base mapping, our existing incident management system doesn't support GML data”, stated Nick Boon, GIS manager, Gloucestershire Police. He added, “We needed to find a way of cost-effectively and accurately converting the OS MasterMap Topography Layer data into a suitable format for our existing systems. The combination of Cadcorp SIS Map Modeller and the Cadcorp SIS OS MasterMap to NTF Exporter was therefore the obvious choice for us because, as far as we are aware, no other vendor offers such a capability.”
The benefits that Gloucestershire Police expects to gain from the use of Cadcorp SIS include the ability to stop receiving OS Land-Line updates, thereby saving them the 'dual-running' charge introduced with the Mapping Services Agreement on 1st April 2005, providing existing systems used by control room staff with up-to-date base map data via support for OS MasterMap change-only updates, and supporting a wide variety of GIS tasks on a daily basis.
