Cadcorp Announces Cadcorp Storm Tracker

Cadcorp (UK) has announced the availability of a new, low-cost digital mapping software product, Cadcorp Storm Tracker.

Developed by Cadcorp to satisfy the requirements of insurance and re-insurance specialists and other organisations concerned with damage caused by hurricanes and other storms, Cadcorp Storm Tracker is a light-weight digital mapping application for the visualisation of hurricane storm tracks. Using data from the Unisys Weather website (www.weather.unisys.com/hurricane), a respected source for global storm data, Cadcorp Storm Tracker enables users to take live storm information, automatically convert it to geographical line features and visualise it over a digital map base. It also enables the user to export the resulting storm track to commonly-used GIS data interchange formats for integration into other software, such as catastrophe modelling products.

A fully functioning copy of Cadcorp Storm Tracker is available on the Cadcorp website for download. Its in-built evaluation licence will run until the end of September, 2005 after which users can purchase the software.