Gümligen, March 2005

The city of Enschede in the Netherlands chooses TOPOBASE™ from c-plan.

Being active in the Dutch GIS market for only 4 months, the Dutch c-plan partner ISSUE in Rotterdam can celebrate its first significant success. Finalized on Christmas, the 150.000 inhabitants counting city of Enschede, decided to use TOPOBASE™ in the surveying and real estate departments as their future GIS.

Eight licenses were acquired to maintain their basic map. The module “Jobs” will enable Enschede to maintain the different validity levels of data and allows data exchange with the Dutch Cadastre as well as with external users using the SUF2- format.

The Geodataserver TOPOBASE™ of c-plan successfully competed against famous Dutch GIS providers. Henk Achterkamp, manager of “Surveying and Real Estate” sees his department in a pole position regarding GIS Technology: “We are convinced of TOPOBASE™.” After the first presentation it was obvious to us, that this would be the best solution.

       

In particular the logical open structure of the TOPOBASE™ software, the numerous standard functions as well as the user friendly interface, made Enschede decide on TOPOBASE™. All important functions that were required are included in the standard TOPOBASE™ software modules. Smaller changes and customization can be carried out by the customer without having programming knowledge. Enschede put high demands on the use of Industrial standards, conditions that TOPOBASE™ with the Oracle/Oracle spatial database and Autodesk Map as graphical front-end completely fulfils.