Month: January 2014

Ordnance Survey Carto Hack Camp

ecls/ / Of Interest

Ordnance Survey are running a one day event for people to show off their cartography skills; anyone who is able to take up a summer internship can apply.

Jenny Brooker, Prototyping Manager at Ordnance Survey writes:

We’ve come a long way since the days of drawing maps by hand but Cartography is still an integral part of our business, and is so much more than just making pretty maps.

We are inviting anyone with an interest in cartographic design or data visualisation to come to Carto Hack Camp and showcase their skills by spending the day with us visualising geographic data. The winner will be offered a paid summer internship in our cartographic design team.

What Will Happen at Carto Hack Camp?

Our camp will be a day-long opportunity for anyone to visit our headquarters in Southampton, meet our Product Development team and spend the day working with them to come up with an exciting new solution for one of our customer scenarios.

There will be a choice of three different customer scenarios, designed to suit a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. The work will be similar in nature to that carried out by our cartographic design consultants. Find out more about what they do here.

You will then demo your ‘map’ to our panel of Ordnance Survey judges who will rate them and decide on the day’s winner.

Why Should I Get Involved?

It’s an opportunity for anyone with skills and an interest in cartographic design to innovate, create and collaborate with other like-minded people.

Our aim is for an enjoyable, relaxed and pressure-free day. Such an atmosphere will hopefully promote good design and if you want to take it a step further, we will be offering the hack day winner a paid summer internship in the Ordnance Survey Cartographic Design team.

Internship

As a part of the British Cartographic Society’s 50th anniversary celebrations last summer, Ordnance Survey announced that we would offer a paid summer internship for a six to nine week period during 2014 in our cartographic design team. The winner of the hack camp will be offered the opportunity to take up this internship.

Where is it?

We will be setting up camp in the business centre at our own headquarters, Explorer House on the edge of Southampton.

When is it?

Thursday 20th February 2014.

  • 9:30 am – Breakfast
  • 10 am – Introduction
  • 1pm – Lunch.
  • 5pm – Round up of the day and judging.
  • 6pm – Finish

What do I Need?

You need a keen interest in cartographic design or data visualisation and preferably some relevant skills but we welcome applicants from any background. You can bring along your own equipment and software, internet access will be provided. If you don’t have your own equipment laptops can be provided on request (please email cartodesign@ordnancesurvey.co.uk with your requirements prior to the event).

How Much Does it Cost?

The event is free and we will provide complimentary food and drink. All we ask is for your time and for you to arrange your own way of getting here.

Sign Me Up…

Visit our registration page on Eventbrite:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carto-hack-camp-tickets-10202097749

Good luck to all Digimap users who take part.

Digimap Service Disruption: 28th January 2014

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Service "At Risk".All Digimap services will be unavailable between 08:30 and 10:00 on Tuesday 28th of January, and should be considered “at risk” for the rest of the morning. We are carrying out an essential database upgrade, this affects logging into the service so there will be no access until the work is complete. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Free Digimap Training Events: 2014

ecls/ / Digimap News, Training & Events

training courseDigimap has some upcoming webinars and a free training event in London. Booking is available via the links below:

There will be more training events throughout the year; for more information or to request training for your institution, please contact us:

  • Email: edina@ed.ac.uk
  • Phone: 0131 650 3302

Historic Digimap: Printing options improved

ecls/ / Digimap News, New Features

Ancient Roam in Historic Digimap has had its print options updated so it now has the same set of options as the other Roam facilities. The two big changes to note are that you can now print up to A0 and that you can print a single county in areas where several overlap.

Until this change was made it was impossible to print an area with overlapping maps without printing all the counties available rather than just the one(s) you were viewing on the screen. Any print files now generated in areas with overlapping counties will only show those which are displayed on screen.  This allows you to have the control over how much information is on your map and to make the decision to show more or less information.

Overlapping Counties Print from Amcient RoamSingle County Print from Ancient Roam

Sometimes it can be an advantage to show multiple counties as even though the sheets overlap the actual map information doesn’t. However in the example above you can see how the counties overwrite each other in the map on the left and so produce a very confusing and fairly useless result; by switching one county off you can produce a much clearer print map such as the one on the right. [Click on the images above to view larger versions of the maps.]

The ability to print maps up to A0 brings Ancient Roam into line with the other Roam facilities so you can now print at this very large size in any Digimap collection.