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
//Presenters:
Eddie Bulpitt, GI Developer/Consultant at Ordnance Survey
Nick Groome, External Research Manager at Ordnance Survey
Digimap would like to invite you to join us for an illuminating session where you will be introduced to Digimap’s Ordnance Survey data and AddressBase, alongside the OS National Geographic Database (OS NGD).
Date: Feb 27, 2024
Time: 01:00 PM London
Registration Link: Register Here
//Digimap is happy to announce the Aerial Collection’s webinar Getmapping: Digimap Datasets, Presented by Jake Lauder, Account Manager at Getmapping Ltd.
Learn how Digimap and Getmapping team up to provide amazing geospatial data.
Perfect for GIS pros, researchers, or anyone interested in maps and data.
Date: 29 February 2024
Time: 1:00 PM
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
//The Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) and OceanWise are delighted to announce two new 2023 course dates for our free online workshop: Marine Data Management, Governance and the MEDIN toolset.
The courses will take place on the following dates:
The course takes place over 5 days with live lessons in the morning and independent learning in the afternoons.
The course can be taken as a whole, or attendees can select modules according to two streams: Marine Data Governance; or Practical MEDIN. Some modules are common to both streams, for example, modules on marine data management principles and components.
The Marine Data Governance stream consists of some elements of general data management best practice, suitable for anyone wishing to improve their data management skills; as well as some higher-level elements suitable for those wishing to enact wider improvements to data management practice across a team or organization.
The practical MEDIN stream also contains elements of general data management with a focus on tools that MEDIN use to facilitate good data management and governance. The practical side to this stream aims to familiarise attendees with creating MEDIN compliant data and metadata.
The course features interactive training and discussion sessions, quizzes, and assignments to help users become familiar with:
//Following our survey in April to learn more about Digimap users’ data priorities for the future, we have some interesting results, with common themes emerging.
First priority datasets:
Second priority datasets:
Third priority datasets:
Combined, the three priorities look like this:
In summary, we think there is demand for more lidar data, more historical data and satellite imagery. We will continue to look at the detail of the survey and use the results to inform our pursuit of additional datasets for Digimap.
In the meantime, do explore what’s already there. Your institution may not subscribe to all the Digimap Collections but you can express your interest in those you don’t currently have access to by logging in to Digimap and following the prompts against each Collection. There is already a range of historical maps (OS, dating back to the 1840s), aerial photography (as much as is available from Getmapping Ltd at 25cm resolution) and Lidar data (originating from GB environment agencies), as well as a full range of DTM and DEM data, detailed OS topographical maps and land cover information. A complete list of all the data available can be found in the Digimap help pages: https://digimap.edina.ac.uk/help/our-maps-and-data/
//Recent data releases are as follows:
| Date of update | DATA | VERSION | APPLICATION |
| 23/05/2023 | Codepoint | May 2023 | OS Download |
| Raster Charts | May 2023 | Marine Download | |
| 15/05/2023 | UKLand | May 2023 | Verisk Roam and Download |
| Air Quality Management Areas – Scotland
Alcohol Prohibition Areas – Scotland Article 4 Directions – Scotland Building Standards Applications – Scotland Community Asset Transfer Register – Scotland Conservation Areas – Scotland Contaminated Land – Scotland Council Asset Register – Scotland Culverts – Scotland Green Belts – Scotland Historic Environment Records – Scotland Housing Land Supplies – Scotland Land Ownership – Scotland Libraries – Scotland Local Landscape Areas – Scotland Local Nature Conservation Sites – Scotland Local Nature Reserves – Scotland Planning Applications – Scotland Polling Districts – Scotland |
April/May 2023 | OS (IS) Download | |
| 12/05/2023 | Open TOID | Jan/Feb/Mar 2023 | OS Download |
| Open Linked Identifiers | December 2022 | OS Download | |
| Open Linked Identifiers | Dec 2022/Feb 2023 / Mar 2023 | OS Download | |
| 11/05/2023 | Open UPRN | Jan/Feb/Mar 2023 | OS Download |
| Open USRN | Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr 2023 | OS Download | |
| Open Map Local | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| Open Map Local Raster | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| Open Rivers | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| Boundary Line | May 2023 | OS Download | |
| 01/05/2023 | Mastermap Water | April 2023 | OS Download |
| Mastermap Greenspace | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| 28/04/2023 | Boreholes | April 2023 | Geology Download |
| 27/04/2023 | Terrain 5 | April 2023 | OS Download |
| Terrain 5 DTM | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| VML | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| VML Raster | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| Open Names | April 2023 | OS Download | |
| 19/04/2023 | Codepoint Polygons | April 2023 | OS Download |
| 13/04/2023 | Land Cover Crops | 2022 | Environment Roam |
| 05/04/2023 | Raster Charts XL (Excluding Land) | March 2023 | Marine Roam/Download |
| 21/03/2023 | Air Quality Management Areas – Scotland
Article 4 Directions – Scotland Conservation Areas – Scotland Contaminated Land – Scotland Core Paths – Scotland Culverts – Scotland Local Landscape Areas – Scotland Local Nature Conservation Sites – Scotland |
January 2023 | OS (IS) Download |
| 21/03/2023 |
Alcohol Prohibition Areas – Scotland Building Standards Applications – Scotland Car Parking – Scotland Gritting Routes – Scotland Historic Environment Records – Scotland Land Ownership – Scotland Local Nature Reserves – Scotland Planning Applications – Scotland |
February 2023 | OS (IS) Download |
| Cycling Network – Scotland
Community Council Boundaries – Scotland |
August 2022 | OS (IS) Download | |
| Council Asset Register – Scotland | March 2023 | OS (IS) Download | |
| Community Asset Transfer Register – Scotland | November 2022 | OS (IS) Download | |
| 16/03/2023 | POI | March 2023 | OS Roam/Download |
| 09/03/2023 | Raster 25k
Raster 50k |
March 2023 | OS Roam |
| 08/03/2023 | Raster 25k
Raster 50k |
March 2023 | OS Download |
| 06/03/2023 | Land Cover Crops | 2022 | Environment Download |
| 01/03/2023 | Codepoint (for search) | February 2023 | All |
| Codepoint Polygons (for search) | January 2023 | All | |
| Codepoint Open | February 2023 | OS Download | |
| 23/02/2023 | Open Names (for search) | January 2023 | All |
| Open Roads (for search) | October 2022 | All | |
| Land Cover Map 2021 | 2021 | Environment Roam | |
| Land Cover Map 2020 | 2020 | Environment Roam | |
| 13/02/2023 | Codepoint | February 2023 | OS Download |
| 07/02/2023 | Open Names | January 2023 | OS Download |
| 01/02/2023 | 12.5cm Colour Infrared | Trial | Pilot Roam |
//Recent data releases are as follows:
| Date of update | DATA | VERSION | APPLICATION |
| 27/01/2023 | MasterMap Topo | December 2022 | OS Roam |
| MasterMap Topo | December 2022 | Schools | |
| 26/01/2023 | Terrain 5 | January 2023 | OS Download |
| Terrain 5 DTM | January 2023 | OS Download | |
| Raster Charts | January 2022 | Marine Download | |
| Boreholes | January 2023 | Geology Download | |
| 19/01/2023 | MasterMap Topo | December 2022 | OS Download |
| Vector Map Local | January 2023 | OS Download | |
| Vector Map Local Raster | January 2023 | OS Download | |
| 12/01/2023 | MasterMap Water | January 2023 | OS Download |
| Codepoint Polygons | January 2023 | OS Download | |
| Codepoint Polygons | January 2023 | OS Download | |
| Open TOID | November 2022 | OS Download | |
| Open USRN | November 2022 | OS Download | |
| Open USRN | December 2022 | OS Download | |
| Open UPRN | November 2022 | OS Download | |
| Open Linked Identifiers | November 2022 | OS Download | |
| 12.5cm Colour Infrared | Trial | Pilot Roam and Download | |
| 50cm Colour Infrared | Trial | Pilot Roam and Download | |
| 5cm RGB Imagery | Trial | Pilot Roam and Download | |
| 12.5cm RGB Imagery | Trial | Pilot Roam and Download | |
| 2m DSM | Trial | Pilot Roam and Download | |
| 2m DTM | Trial | Pilot Roam and Download |
//The UK Hydrographic Office has announced the phased withdrawal of its paper charts to conclude in late 2026. This withdrawal includes digital facsimiles of its paper charts known as raster charts. These are currently available through Marine Digimap‘s Chart Roam and Marine Download applications.
EDINA is aware that the Raster Charts are very popular. As a consequence of the Hydrographic Office announcement, OceanWise (who supply the marine data available through Digimap) is urgently considering how best to support users of the Raster Charts and Raster Charts XL following their withdrawal. One option is to develop alternative raster charts through various means. You can read more about OceanWise’s approach to this on their website.
As a supplier of marine data to the academic sector, EDINA would like to gather feedback from Digimap users about the marine mapping requirements of the research and teaching community to feed into OceanWise’s review of the forthcoming change. If you would like to share your views on this, please drop us a line on digimap@ed.ac.uk
