REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
14th – 16th April 2021

(Note: please do not contact EDINA or Digimap about this conference)

THe GISRUK Organising Committee are pleased to announce the 29^th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Conference, hosted by Cardiff University, which will take place as a fully online event from Wednesday 14^th April to Friday 16^th April 2021. The whole conference will be fully open and free (£0).

You are invited to register for FREE following this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gisruk2021-annual-conference-tickets-143562239523 or by visiting the conference website: http://cardiff.gisruk.org

Deadline for Registration: Wednesday 14th April 2021

The conference theme this year is the COVID19 pandemic and will include papers on mapping the spread of the disease and on the spatial analysis of its impact on such things as personal mobility, social inequalities and the outcomes of interventions such as stay at home orders.

The conference presentations will also include papers in the following areas:

• Urban Analytics and Smart Cities
• Urban infrastructure modelling and the built environment
• Spatial and Spatio-temporal modelling
• Cartography and Geovisualisation
• Volunteered Geographic Information
• Applications in transport, economics, health, and environmental science

GISRUK 2021 Early Career Researcher Workshop

Tuesday 13th April 2021

Calling all Masters’ students, PhD students, post-doctoral and early career researchers in the field of GI Science

This year there is a FREE on-line pre-GISRUK2021 conference Early Career Researcher Workshop on Tuesday 13th April 2021

GISRUK will feature a selection of ECR (Early Career Researcher) sessions. These will be a great opportunity for Masters’ and PhD students to get to know each other before start of the conference, and we will have sessions on ‘What is an (academic) conference?’, Careers (academic and non academic) in GI Science and Research (including grant writing and interdisciplinary collaboration). We will also have a session a couple of weeks before the main conference, dedicated to presenting online, to help you develop your presentations before the conference itself. All Masters’ and PhD students are welcome, as are early career post-docs and researchers. We will also be running a separate session (GISRUK for the uninitiated) for those who are new to the GISRUK conference series and would like to learn a bit more about it.

All participants for the ECR workshop are invited to register for FREE using the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gisruk2021-early-career-researcher-workshop-tickets-143585340619 or by visiting the conference website: http://cardiff.gisruk.org

Registration remains open until Friday 9th April 2021

Mar 8, 2021

Hi,

We are running a webinar for any of you who are new to Digimap Collections, on 16th February at 11am GMT.

We will introduce the key features of our Digimap mapper, Roam, and consider when you would use Data Download. You will have the chance to ask questions. By the end of the webinar you will know:
* how to find out what maps and data we offer,
* how to browse different maps,
* add layers to your map,
* measure map features,
* add drawings,
* save and print maps.

Register in advance:

https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-mtrzIsGtFdYoEQ7w6YrMJzx8HuzZsk

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Hope to see you there!

Jan 28, 2021

EDINA have taken the difficult decision to withdraw the Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) data from Digimap at the end of the current subscription year on 31st July 2020.  For those who have had a subscription to the OSNI data and have downloaded any licensed OSNI data from Digimap over the past 12 months you must now delete it since your licence to use and hold it has expired.

If you wish to continue using OSNI data, you should make appropriate licensing arrangements with OSNI directly, or through one of their partners.

Some OSNI data is available as Open Data. This will continue to be available through Digimap as previously. The Open Data is not covered by the recently expired Digimap licence for the OSNI data.

Jul 30, 2020

You may have noticed a new tab has appeared on the Digimap home page, labelled Noteable.

Noteable is a new service from EDINA, a cloud-based service which allows users to create, run & visualise code in a large number of computational languages. It can be used to access the unlimited opportunities of Python and/or R to build and manipulate data science models, addressing a wide variety of research problems. Noteable offers huge potential for geospatial data analysis and processing, making complex software environments and data models readily available to large numbers of students for remote learning.

Noteable builds and expands on Jupyter & RStudio technology to provide an efficient and collaborative learning environment. It offers low barriers to access with teachers able to set up the students’ environment once, and enables students to get started without the associated effort of setting up their own.

Contact us to learn more: noteable@ed.ac.uk

Jul 9, 2020

We are very pleased to announce the addition of a new collection of datasets to Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection.  EDINA has partnered with Improvement Service to bring you a range of 37 datasets from Scottish Local Authorities. These are available at no additional charge upon agreement to the institutional sub-licence.

Once your institution has agreed to the sub-licence, all users will need to agree to the end user licence to have access to the data via the OS Data Download facility. To agree to the licence, log in to Digimap, go to Licence Agreements (top right) and find the Improvement Service licence at the bottom of the list. Once you have agreed to this, the data will be visible.

To access it, go to the left hand panel in Data Download and look for the section labelled “Improvement Service – Scotland”. All 37 datasets are listed in this section.

Although the availability grid indicates Scotland-wide coverage for every dataset, some local authorities do not provide every datasets.

The datasets are:

Air Quality Management Areas	Alcohol Prohibition Areas	Car Parking
Community Council Boundaries	Conservation Areas and Article 4 Directions	Contaminated Land (Confirmed)
Core Paths	Council/Community Asset Register	Culverts
Cycling Network	Employment Land Supply	Green Belts
Gritting Routes	Historic Environment Records	Housing Land Supply
Libraries	Local Landscape Areas	Local Nature Conservation Sites
Local Nature Reserves	Planning Applications	Polling Districts
Polling Places	Private Water Supplies	Recycling and Waste Facilities
Renewable Energy Sites	Safety Features	School Catchments
Scottish Local Authority Areas	Septic Tanks	Smoke Control Areas
Street Furniture	Town Centres	Tree Preservation Orders
Vacant and Derelict Land	Wind Turbine Spatial Framework

Dec 13, 2019