Digimap is an online map and data delivery service, available by subscription to UK Higher and Further Education establishments. Operated by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, Digimap offers a number of data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological, aerial photography, LiDAR, marine maps, land cover mapping, global mapping and census data. For more information about Digimap go to our website: https://digimap.edina.ac.uk Background image Contains OS data (c) Crown Copyright and database right 2022
//Digimap is happy to announce the Global Collection’s webinar, ‘Digimap Global Collection – An Overview’. This session introduces the Digimap Global Collection, highlighting what global mapping and contextual datasets are available and how they can be used for international analysis, comparison, and teaching and research across the world.
Date: 26/02/2026
Time: 13:00 (London time)
Register HERE
//You’ve been invited to: Digimap Society Collection – An Overview.
This session introduces the Digimap Society Collection, focusing on data from the British population censuses. It will highlight what census data is available and how it can be used to explore key aspects of contemporary society, including population change, housing, and social trends across the UK.
Date: 23 February 2026
Time: 1:00 PM (London time)
Register HERE
We look forward to having you attend the event!
//Environment Digimap: Land Cover, Land Cover Plus and the Newly Released Fertiliser Maps (2015–2021)
Digimap is happy to announce the Environment Collection’s webinar, ‘Land Cover, Land Cover Plus and the Newly Released Fertiliser Maps (2015–2021)’. Presented by Dr Clare Rowland, Earth Observation Scientist, and Emily Upcott, Spatial Ecologist, at UKCEH.
Date: 10 February 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Register HERE
//Join us for “A Walk Through Digimap Services”, a free, live webinar introducing you to Digimap’s powerful tools and features. This session will cover an overview of map collections, navigating the platform and how to select and download your data. A live Q&A will follow to answer all your questions.
🗺️ Discover the wide range of map collections available.
🚀 Navigate the platform with confidence.
📂 Learn how to select, download, and make the most of your data.
🎤 Live Q&A: Have questions? We’ve got answers!
Don’t miss this chance to dive into Digimap’s powerful tools and features. Reserve your spot now and take your projects to the next level!
Dates:
Click on the dates below to register for each webinar. You can attend as many as you want!
Register HERE for the 14 January 2026
Register HERE for the 10 March 2026
Register HERE for the 06 May 2026
Time: 1:00 PM London
Location: Virtual (TEAMS)
Don’t miss out—reserve your spot today!
//Marine and Coastal Mapping
Join us for an engaging session on Marine and Coastal Mapping, led by Bella Ormerod, Marine Data Technician/Engineer from OceanWise Ltd.
Date: 4 November 2025
Time: 1:00 PM (London time)
Register HERE.
Geology Collection: BGS Data Products in Digimap
Presented by: Helen Burke, 3D Geological Modeller and Surveyor and Henry Holbrook, Data Sharing Manager at British Geological Survey
Date: 5 November 2025
Time: 01:00 PM (London time)
Register HERE.
//Our colleagues at Ordnance Survey are running a free online webinar that may be of interest to Digimap users.
📅 Date: 8 October 2025
⏰ Time: 11:00 – 12:00 (BST)
💻 Where: Online (MS Teams)
🎟️ Cost: Free (registration required)
The session, “Data Standards and Q-FAIR — A view from Ordnance Survey,” will explore how Q-FAIR principles can help target data standards interventions, and why metadata and addressing standards are so important for discoverability and interoperability.
Allan Jamieson from Ordnance Survey will also introduce the National Geospatial Data Standards Register and discuss current and future efforts in data standardisation across the UK and internationally.
This webinar will be of interest to data scientists, researchers, GIS professionals, educators, and anyone working with geospatial or linked datasets. Whether you are combining data from different sources and time periods or simply want to learn more about standards and formats that support effective data use.
👉 Find out more and register here.
//We have some exciting updates to share for the start of the new academic year:
We’ve refreshed the interface and added the most recent census data: Scotland (2022) and England & Wales (2021). This provides richer demographic and societal information for your projects and research.
We have switched our global mapping provider from OpenStreetMap to Overture Maps. Overture is based on OpenStreetMap but is enriched with data from other sources. This means you’ll benefit from the very best open-source mapping, with a smoother user experience and data updated to March 2025.The data will be also available for download.
We’ve added the new Multimodal Routing Network (MRN) data to the OS Collection, ideal for users needing detailed transport and routing information. This includes the speed data previously available under trial from Basemap.Ordnance Survey National Geographic Database (OS NGD) data has been updated to the May 2025 version, also available in the OS Collection.All other products continue to be updated according to their usual schedules.
Data from Map Impact is available for trial and testing in Pilot Digimap until December 2025. Go to Pilot Digimap >> Data Download tab >> Map Impact to download samples. The data available relates to Biodiversity, Drought Risk, Wildfire Risk, and Heat Risk. It is supplied as H3 hex grids on WGS84 (EPSG:4326) projection
The latest version of the LandCoverMap for 2024 from UKCEH is now available for download in Environment Digimap. We are working on making this available for mapping too, and hope to have this available soon.
Celebrating 100 years or broadcast this year, the Shipping Forecast has not only saved lives and grown as an important safety tool, but it’s also established itself as a cultural staple in UK and Republic of Ireland. Now these forecast areas can be added to maps in Marine Digimap, adding context and illustration for further research work.
OS continually develop their product range and as part of this process some products are “retired” and no longer updated or made available. Digimap maintains a historical archive of data previously licensed from OS, which enables continuity of supply for research purposes. The following products have been given a withdrawal date:
This will be superseded by the NGD Water Theme – Water Collection, which already exists and is available through Digimap (your institution will need to purchase a subscription to the OS NGD data). You can read the withdrawal notice on Ordnance Survey’s website.
All Digimap licences expired on 31 July 2025. To continue accessing Digimap you must re-agree to the licences for the collections and products your institution subscribes to from 1 August 2025.
Please note your institution may not have renewed every subscription it held for 2024/25. To re-agree to the licences, please log in to Digimap as usual and follow the prompts. Help with this is available on the help page about accepting licence terms . There are no substantive changes to the licences between last year and this.
We are hosting the following webinars in October 2025. For more information/to register, please visit our blog by clicking the button below.
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//We are pleased to announce that the Land Cover Map 2024 version is now available through Environment Digimap. This is an update to the previous versions, available under the Data Download tab, for download only. The LCM data follows previous years in providing an uninterrupted national dataset of land cover classes from grassland, woodland and fresh water to urban and suburban built-up areas. The Land Cover Map data can be used to plan, manage or monitor agriculture, ecology, conservation, forestry, environmental assessment, water supplies, urban spread, transport, telecommunications, recreation and mineral extraction. It is particularly useful when combined with other datasets. The land cover data can be used to examine the coincidence of a given species with particular land cover types, make assessments of habitats at risk from a specific development, or look at national distributions of land cover types and how it is affected by other environmental and human factors.
//Join us for an engaging session on Marine and Coastal Mapping, led by Bella Ormerod, Marine Data Technician/Engineer from OceanWise. Bella will introduce key datasets and tools used in marine environments and explain their applications in real-world coastal mapping projects.
Date: 4 November 2025
Time: 1:00 PM
You can register Here
//We are excited to announce the upcoming Aerial Collection webinar, featuring Getmapping: Digimap Datasets, presented by David Philpot, Content Programs Project Manager at Getmapping Ltd. This session will cover valuable datasets available through Digimap, including colour infrared (CIR) imagery, used for vegetation analysis and environmental studies, as well as 5cm data, a high-resolution dataset ideal for mapping and surveying projects.
Date: November 19, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM
You can register Here
