Case Study: Charnwood Borough Council achieves streamlined council services and on-demand public access with Cadcorp SIS and GeognoSIS

Charnwood Borough Council - Customer Case Study

Charnwood Borough Council, which serves about 155,000 people, confronted fragmented, proprietary Unix-based GIS systems that were costly to maintain and hard to share across departments or with the public. To establish a corporate, open and web-enabled mapping capability the council chose Cadcorp and its SIS Spatial Information System family — including Cadcorp SIS desktop, ActiveX tools and the GeognoSIS web server — to power a council-wide iMAP service.

Cadcorp implemented a solution centered on GeognoSIS and the SIS product suite, embedding mapping into back‑office workflows and publishing data from Oracle 10g/9i through the public iMAP portal. The outcome: over 200 datasets (including 180,000+ planning polygons) are available to staff and citizens, iMAP web hits rose from 1,764 to 10,674 (a 600% increase in eight months), and land charge searches that previously took 10–12 days now complete in 2–3 days, delivering faster public services and clear efficiency gains.

Charnwood Borough Council

Tony Gilbert

GIS Team Leader, Information and Communication Services