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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
Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, along with partner universities Exeter and Birmingham, has two iCASE awards for which we are inviting applications for the 2022-23 academic year. Please follow the links below for full details.
EPSRC iCASE PhD Studentship – University of Exeter and Ordnance Survey
Statistical Data Science Methods for Identifying Redundancy in Geo-Spatial Data
Closes 9 September 2022
Full project description, entry requirements and application process details available from:
As many of you will know, all Digimap subscriptions are renewed annually on 1st August. As a consequence, all registered users are required to renew their agreement to the End User Licence Agreements (EULAs).
When you next log in to Digimap after 1st August, you will be prompted to do this. It is not a re-registration process, so following the prompts means you will not lose access to any history you have with Digimap. Your Saved Maps and Previous Downloads will still be available.
If you are prompted to re-register (i.e. asked to fill in your details anew), it may be that your institution has changed something relating to your account and you have been assigned a new identifier as part of your login details that Digimap doesn’t recognise. If this happens, you will appear to Digimap as a brand new user and your Saved Maps and Previous Downloads will not be available under your new registration.
The July 2022 version of the OS MasterMap Water Network has been released for Data Download. It’s available from Digimap as GML3 and you can read more about the data on the Ordnance Survey website here.
Geology Digimap now offers the new GeoCoast dataset, which replaces the Coastal Vulnerability dataset. GeoCoast is available from Geology Download under the Onshore Geology section. It is available in Shapefile format and only as a national datasets (it’s not possible to select a particular area – the whole dataset will be included in the download).
This Coastal Vulnerability dataset has been withdrawn and is no longer supported by BGS. However, it remains available through Geology Digimap under the Archived Datasets section. It is provided “as is” and used at your own risk.
Example of GeoCoast data courtesy of British Geological Survey.
Digimap is pleased to support GISRUK 2022 at the University of Liverpool. Below is the call for papers. If you have any enquiries about GISRUK, please contact gisruk2022@liverpool.ac.uk
We are pleased to invite you to submit a 1500 word extended abstract for the 30th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Conference, which will be held on the 5th – 8th April 2022. The conference will be hosted in person by the Department of Geography and Planning and the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool.
GISRUK is the largest academic conference in Geographic Information Science in the UK. For the last 30 years, GISRUK has attracted international researchers and practitioners in GIS and related fields, including geography, data science, urban planning and computer science, to share and discuss the latest advances in spatial computing and analysis. We welcome papers covering all aspects of geographical information science, both theoretical and applied. In addition, we also have a specific theme for the 2022 conference. We are particularly interested in receiving papers which focus on new forms of data and approaches, missingness and representation.
The closing date for abstract submissions is Monday 10th January 2022. Please submit your papers using the template available to download via the conference website. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair. All papers will be subject to peer review and allocated to short or long presentations, or poster presentations. Conference proceedings of all accepted papers will be made available online.
If you have any queries, please contact us via email at gisruk2022@liverpool.ac.uk. We look forward to receiving submissions and welcoming a diverse group of researchers to GISRUK 2022 in Liverpool.
GISRUK Organizing Committee (University of Liverpool)
Conference co-chairs: Jeremiah J Nieves and Cait Robinson
Early-career committee: Patrick Ballantyne, Olivia Horsefield, Gladys Kenyon, Natalie Rose
Welcome to the start of a new term and a new academic year! We very much hope that 2021/22 will be settled and productive with studies and research returning stronger than ever before. We have some exciting developments with Digimap for the coming session which we hope you will enjoy reading about and will find of use in your work over the coming year. As ever, we welcome feedback and suggestions; please don’t hesitate to contact us, either by email or on our social media channels (links below).
New Digimap Help Pages
We are delighted to report that this month we have launched a new Help system for Digimap. All our help pages have been reviewed, updated and re-presented. They are now easier to navigate and easier to read. We hope it will be much easier to find the help you need. We will continue to review, amend and update the information.
If you have bookmarks to the old help system, they will still work for a short period, but will not necessarily offer the most up to date information.
agCensus Digimap
Digimap’s newest data collection is the agCensus Digimap service offering agricultural census data for England, Scotland and Wales. These are grid-square estimates of a wide variety of farm statistics, ranging from farm workers, to strawberries, beef cattle to beetroot, derived from agricultural census surveys conducted by each national administration.
Your institution can subscribe to agCensus Digimap and access the data through our easy-to-use Data Download application.
Environment Digimap – new data
With thanks to the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Digimap now offers three additional datasets. These are: Integrated Hydrological Digital Terrain Model, UKCEH 1:50,000 Digital River Network and Woody Linear Features Framework. Check out the new datasets in Environment Download.
Despite so many challenges affecting the rest of our lives, 2020 was a fantastic year for flying aerial photography – some great, clear weather and almost all air traffic grounded because of the pandemic.
As a result, Aerial Digimap has had a bumper data update from Getmapping plc with 107,770 km2 of land covered by new images. This means 323,310 files or around 44% of data tiles have been updated! The first image shows the coverage of the new 2020 data. The second image shows the total coverage of aerial imagery flown within the last 3 years.
Coverage map of areas updated in the last 3 years
Coverage map of areas updated in 2020
Over the coming weeks the composite coverage available through Aerial Roam will be updated with the new data. In the meantime, 2020 data can already be downloaded from Aerial Download.
Improvement Service Data
Your subscription to the Ordnance Survey Collection in Digimap now automatically includes Scottish local authority data from the Improvement Service. This collection covers more than 40 datasets created and curated by Scotland’s 32 local authorities. The data are wide ranging, from air quality management, alcohol prohibition areas and car parking, to care homes for the elderly, GP practices and school catchments. The data can be found in the OS Collection Data Download, under Improvement Service – Scotland.
We are pleased to announce the next webinar series for Digimap. Anyone is welcome to join these but placees are limited so please register online in good time. Recordings of previous webinars can be found on our YouTube channel.
These webinars are for those who are new to Digimap Collections. We will introduce the key features of Roam, our Digimap mapper, and consider when you would use Data Download. You will have the chance to ask questions.
Historic Digimap
10th November 2021, 12:30-1:15pm REGISTER
Guest speaker: Rick Crowhurst, Senior Public Sector Manager, Landmark Solutions
Find out what historical maps are available in Historic Digimap, which are provided by Landmark Solutions. Rick Crowhurst will tell us about the County, Town Plan and National Grid maps that you can access and their potential uses. The Digimap team will demonstrate the use of Historic Roam, where you can view, compare and print the maps. You will have the chance to ask questions.
Guest speaker: Russell Lawley, Product Development Team Leader, British Geological Survey
Find out about the range of British Geological Survey data products available in Geology Digimap from Russell Lawley of BGS Product Development. The Digimap team will demonstrate the use of Geology Roam, where you can view, compare and print the maps. You will have the chance to ask questions.
Here to help
The Digimap support team offers assistance to all Digimap users with the use of the service. If you have any questions about any aspect of Digimap, it’s use, the data it offers, subscriptions or its future, please get in touch.
The following Ordnance Survey event might be of interest to Digimap users:
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OS Map & Hack is OS’ first virtual hackathon taking place on October 6 & 7, focusing on how spatial data contributes to solving real-world challenges around.
We are looking at the use of spatial data and how this can be used as we move towards sustainable alternatives across multiple market sectors. Spatial data is key to unlocking insights that determine how we are literally shaping our world. As the pace of technological innovation quickens, implementing the infrastructure and driving interest is crucial to widespread adoption across the country at a national, organisational, and individual level.
A panel of innovation and geospatial experts will be evaluating your contribution and looking for the strongest and innovative examples, which make best use of OS data and APIs.
Participants, entering as either individuals to be placed into a team or existing teams, will have an opportunity to work to four different challenges ranging from supporting local government to influencing consumer behaviours. The winners will receive collaboration time with OS technical and geospatial experts, Geovation memberships and a whole bunch of OS swag.
The event’s opening ceremony, pitching, judging, and closing ceremony will be held via Microsoft Teams. Collaboration will be taking place on Discord with workshops, activities and channels that provides participants the opportunity to collaborate with developers across public sector, private sector and the start-up community. Participants can also collaborate directly with the OS teams to ensure they’re getting the most effective use of OS data.
Challenges:
Challenge 1: levelling up – How can local governments use geospatial data for EV charging infrastructure and the transition to EV’s in remote communities.
Challenge 2: taking charge – What is the demand for charge points of EV fleets and where do these charge points need to be developed?
Challenge 3: the ‘real’ EV journey – How can we build the infrastructure to accurately reflect and represent the habits of the everyday EV user?
Challenge 4: open innovation – the open innovation challenges provides the freedom to design and build your own sustainable concept.
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