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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
Booking is now open for the EDINA Geoforum Event on the 20th of June at the Congress Centre, London. All the details including a provisional programme are on the website: http://edina.ac.uk/events/geoforum2013/
It will be an all-day event with workshops, hands-on demonstrations and talks showing you what we are working on. We are very keen to hear your views about the next generation of Digimap services; so we would like you to join us and share your ideas.
Geoforum is a great opportunity for you to discuss any issues with the EDINA team and to network with geospatial people from across academia. We are aiming to provide more time and space for discussion and debate at this year’s event.
We have introduced a raft of new print options to Digimap Roam; some of these were previously only available in Carto, others are new altogether:
– Select your own scale for the printed map (within sensible limits) – Print OS MasterMap at up to 1:100 scale (Carto’s limit is 1:500) – Print at paper sizes up to A0 – Print landscape or portrait orientations (not available in Carto)
The new print options along with the formats already available mean that printing from Roam is now more flexible and powerful than Carto.
We have also added an extra zoom level to Roam’s screen maps called Building View. This shows OS MasterMap at around 1:500, making it easier to add detailed annotations such as new buildings to your map.
With these enhancements Roam can now perform many of the tasks previously only possible with Carto.
Unfortunately, Carto has become difficult to maintain and needs to be replaced. These changes to Roam, along with some extra features planned for the coming months, will enable it to take the place of Carto. Once all the enhancements to Roam are made we will retire Carto completely; we intend to do this at the end of July 2013.
If you have any concerns about the withdrawal of Carto then please let us know:
Marine Roam is a fantastic service which provides access to SeaZone HydroSpatial data for the waters around Great Britain. There are many applications for the data and the expanding offshore renewables sector, and associated research around it, immediately springs to mind. However, did you know that you can use Marine Roam for some historical sleuthing?
70 years ago today, 27th march 1943, HMS Dasher was sailing up the Firth of Clyde heading for Greenock. HMS Dasher had been converted into an aircraft carrier and was home to 8 Swordfish and 2 Sea Hurricanes. The planes were being refuelled following landing practice when there was a series of massive explosions. The ensuing fire could not be contained and the ship was abandoned. It sank just 6 minutes after the first explosion. While 149 seamen were recovered, 379 lost their lives.
Wrecks are marked in the HydroSpatial data and can be queried in Marine Roam. It is a little tricky to find the wreck of HMS Dasher. I knew it was situated in the Firth of Clyde, mid-way between Arran and the mainland, about 5 miles south of Little Cumbrae. However, the only wreck I could find was that of the Antares, a fishing trawler which sank in 1990 after its nets were apparently snagged by a submarine. After a bit of hunting I found some strange boat shaped features, seemingly related to military wrecks which for the most part appear to have been sunk during exercises. One of these marks the resting place of HMS Dasher. Below is a screenshot of the attribute information held in the HydroSpatial data about her.
Wreck of HMS Dasher in Marine Roam
You can log into Marine Roam and use the Info Tool to explore features on the map. Alternatively, you can download the data through Marine Download and load it into a GIS for further exploration.
So what other famous ship wrecks can you find in Marine Roam? Why not post a comment with the coordinates of your favorite sea-floor find.
The functionality and datasets offered by MasterMap Download and Boundary Download are now available through the standard Data Download application. This can be found in the Download OS mapping data section of Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection.
This means that both MasterMap Download and Boundary Download will be withdrawn at the end of May 2013.
If you have teaching materials or course notes which are currently based on the old MasterMap Download and Boundary Download applications, please make sure you update them before these facilities are withdrawn.
If you have any concerns about this or any other issue then please contact us:
EDINA are planning to hold a Geoforum event on Thursday 20th June at the Congress Centre, Great Russell Street, London. If you support the use of Digimap at your institution or use it for teaching then you will want to keep the date free in your diary.
It will be an all-day event with workshops, hands-on demonstrations and talks showing you what we are working on. We are very keen to hear your views about the next generation of Digimap services; so we would like you to join us and share your ideas.
Geoforum is a great opportunity for you to discuss any issues with the EDINA team and to network with geospatial people from across academia. We are aiming to provide more time and space for discussion and debate at this year’s event.
Further information will be posted here on the Digimap blog and the EDINA Events page, including details of the programme and how to register: http://edina.ac.uk/events/
We have now put the datasets that were in MasterMap Download and Boundary Download into the Data Download facility. The datasets added are:
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
OS MasterMap® ITN (Integrated Transport Network™) Layer
Boundary-Line™
Codepoint®
Codepoint® with Polygons
National Boundaries
National Grids
MasterMap Download and Boundary Download will continue to run until the end of May after which they will be removed from service.
You should find it quicker and easier to get the data you need from Data Download, and we have made it easier for you to come back and get updated versions or different formats too.
This functionality can be found in the My Previous Downloads section where you can also make a Change Only Update (COU) to your OS MasterMap data. See this blog post for more details:
Another big advantage of getting your OS MasterMap data from Data Download is that the interface allows you to select data from previous years, going back to 2009.
You can select an area, add MasterMap data from 2009, then use the Add more data button to include more MasterMap data from different dates. This is a great feature if you want to study how an area has changed over time.
Digimap has become a teenager today, 10th January 2013. There have been some big changes to the service over the years, with interfaces coming and going and Ordnance Survey maps being joined by Historic (2005), Geology (2007), Marine (2009) and soon Environment (2013).
How Digimap Carto has changed since the service launched on the 10th of January 2000.
We’d really like to thank all our site reps and other institutional staff who have supported and promoted the service over the last 13 years.
Remember you can have your say about any of the Digimap Collections in the Impact Surveys available in the service and listed below. Please fill one in to let us know how we are doing and help us improve the service for the future:
In January 2013 the OS MasterMap®, Boundary-Line™ and Code-Point® data products will be available from the Data Download service. We have tried to keep the changes necessary to accommodate these products to a minimum as the current interface has proved so successful (190,000 map tiles and files downloaded Nov 2012).
Here is a list of the changes and additions you will see in the interface; please note that they may still be subject to some change prior to launch.
Both Boundary-Line and MasterMap have layers so we have had to make changes to the basket:
Instead of selecting Version and Format using drop-down menus there is a new pop-up for changing both these and the layers for each of the products in your basket. You can access this pop-up by clicking on the Change link in the Options column:
We have also improved the “My Account” section which is now called “My Previous Downloads”:
Once in the interface you can access any of your past downloads and reopen them at the basket stage:
It is now much easier to update your previous downloads to the latest version, get the same data in a different format or simply reorder data you have previously taken. In addition to these functions we have incorporated the ability to make Change-Only-Updates (COUs) to MasterMap Data:
Both Boundary Download and MasterMap Download will be kept in service for a transition period but as there are so many benefits to using Data Download we hope everyone will make the switch quickly. We expect to have switched off these services by the end of April.
November was a record month for the Digimap Service with over 2 million screen maps made by the four collections. Digimap Roam made over 1 million screen maps alone and also broke its record for the number of print maps generated, over 28,000.
The number of files downloaded was also a record for Digimap with nearly 250,000 map tiles or files taken from the four collections. The Data Download facility for the Ordnance Survey Collection provided the bulk of these, over 190,000. Since the introduction of the new Data Download there has been a great deal more data supplied to staff and students but October and November have seen a huge spike. This has also been achieved from a lower total number of orders showing how the changes made in the upgrade have greatly improved the efficiency of the process. It is now much easier to get all the data you need in a smaller number of orders.
On top of the downloads from the Digimap Collections, ShareGeo Open also had a record month. ShareGeo Open is a repository for open spatial data that promotes the sharing and re-use of spatial data in teaching and learning.
There were over 3400 downloads of datasets from the service, nearly double last November’s total. There are almost 200 different datasets available from the service, with the recent addition of wind farm locations for the UK proving popular. The most downloaded dataset for the past 6 months is the Postcode Areas file, made from the Code-Point Open data.
Booking is now open for the EDINA Geoforum Event on the 20th of June at the Congress Centre, London. All the details including a provisional programme are on the website: http://edina.ac.uk/events/geoforum2013/
It will be an all-day event with workshops, hands-on demonstrations and talks showing you what we are working on. We are very keen to hear your views about the next generation of Digimap services; so we would like you to join us and share your ideas.
Geoforum is a great opportunity for you to discuss any issues with the EDINA team and to network with geospatial people from across academia. We are aiming to provide more time and space for discussion and debate at this year’s event.
