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
//Explore the National Tree Map and learn about mapping Great Britain’s vegetation with Alice Hilton, Environmental Product Specialist at Bluesky.
Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM (London Time)
You can register Here
//Join us for a webinar on Verisk Buildings Data and Digimap for the UK – Making use of UK Property Characteristics for Your Projects, presented by Jeremy Thomas, Business Development Consultant and and Tom Timms, Sales Director at Verisk.
Date: November 8, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM (London Time)
You can register Here
//Digimap is happy to announce the Environment Collection’s webinar ‘The Land Cover Map Family: Land Cover, Crops and Hedgerows’. Presented by Dr. Clare Rowland Earth Observation Scientist and Emily Upcott Spatial Ecologist.
Date: 06 February 2024
Time: 1:00 PM
You can register Here
//GISRUK 2021: FREE, OPEN, ONLINE Conference 13th – 16th April 2021
TWO WEEK REMINDER – SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS deadline extended until Monday 15th February 2021
We are pleased to invite you to submit a 1500 word extended abstract for the 29th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Conference, which will take place as a fully online event from Tuesday 13th April to Friday 16th April 2021. The whole conference will be fully open and free (£0) and is hosted by Cardiff University. Please see conference website for details:
Conference website: http://cardiff.gisruk.org
Organizer: Prof Scott Orford (Cardiff University)
Contact email: info@gisruk.org
Submission deadline for Call for Papers: Monday 15th February 2021
//Please select any webinar link below to register and you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions. We use Zoom to deliver webinars.
Previous webinar recordings and materials can be found here.
If you have suggestions for webinar topics relating to Digimap, please drop us a line on digimap@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 3302.
//We are very pleased to confirm a new date and venue for our next Geoforum event and invite you to join us for an interesting programme with a range of speakers and opportunities for discussion.
Geoforum will be on Tuesday 3rd March 2020 at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh 10.30am – 4pm.
Please do save the date. We aim to showcase different uses of the data downloaded from Digimap by researchers from a number of disciplines. There will also be a workshop session led by EDINA offering opportunity for discussion and feedback. We look forward to seeing you!
Geoforum is a free all day event aimed at lecturers, researchers and support staff who promote and support the use of geospatial data and services at their institution. The confirmed programme will be published here on our blog and distributed by email when available.
//Following the announcement of the general election for Thursday 12th December we have taken the difficult decision to postpone the GeoForum, due to be held in Edinburgh on Thursday 12th December.
We are aiming to reschedule the event for the spring of 2020 so will post details of a new date here as soon as possible.
GeoForum is a free all day event aimed at lecturers, researchers and support staff who promote and support the use of geospatial data and services at their institution. We hope that you will be able to join us for the next one.
//**UPDATE** This event has been postponed until Spring 2020. Watch this space for further details
We are very pleased to confirm the date and venue for our next Geoforum event and invite you to join us for an interesting programme, with a range of speakers and opportunities for discussion.
Geoforum will be on Thursday 12th December 2019 at the Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh 10.30am – 4pm.
Please do save the date. We aim to showcase different uses of the data downloaded from Digimap by researchers from a number of disciplines. Topics include green space and mental health, satellite data and solar energy. There will also be a workshop session led by EDINA offering opportunity for discussion and feedback. We look forward to seeing you!
Geoforum is a free all day event aimed at lecturers, researchers and support staff who promote and support the use of geospatial data and services at their institution. The confirmed programme will be published on our blog and distributed by email when available.
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Over the next few weeks we will be running a programme of webinars covering updates to Digimap, Global and Society Collections and the Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland data, including how you can access these new services. A separate webinar to discuss and answer any questions on data licences will also be scheduled.
The first webinar will be on Thursday 16th May (13:00-13:45) where we will demonstrate all the recent and forthcoming changes. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions but places are limited so please register online if you wish to attend.
Don’t worry if you can’t make this webinar, it will be repeated on 23rd May and 30th May, details and registration links can be found on our Events page.
//All Digimap users currently have free access to Global Digimap until 31st July 2019 as a trial. We hope you like this new service. If you would like to learn more about the OpenStreetMap data, it’s origins and history, from someone who is more than qualified to tell the story, Steve Chilton is giving a talk at #geomob in London on 19th June 2019 about this very subject.
For more details, visit the #geomob website: https://thegeomob.com/post/june-19th-2019-geomoblon-details
