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
//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
//EDINA is pleased to announce a new schedule of webinar dates. Some topics have yet to be confirmed. Please book a place….just click any webinar to go to the booking page.
If you have suggestions for other webinar topics relating to Digimap, please drop us a line on edina@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 3302.
//EDINA will be exhibiting at the Jisc Digifest 2018 conference on 6th and 7th March at the ICC in Birmingham. Come and talk to us about exciting developments with Digimap! We will have demonstrations of all the Digimap services and staff on hand to answer any questions. We will be at Pod 19 in the Exhibitor Zone and DigiLab area.
Directions on how to get to the ICC are here: International Convention Centre Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA.
//Digimap have scheduled two “open surgery” webinars, open to all Digimap users. These hour long sessions offer the opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have about Digimap.
Our team have a wealth of experience of mapping data and can help you with:
We’d welcome questions about any aspect of the service, or if you’d just like to give us some feedback that would be very welcome. Hope to see you there.
Book now!
NOTE: Previous webinar recordings, along with slides and Q&A transcripts can be viewed on the webinar materials page.
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We recently made available, through the Digimap Lidar Collection, a wealth of Vertical Aerial Imagery data captured by the Environment Agency for England. The Environment Agency has been capturing vertical aerial imagery since 2006 on a project by project basis, so the coverage is not continuous across England. Availability grids for each year of data are available in the Lidar Download application. Data is available in some locations for multiple dates where the location has been surveyed on more than one occasion.
Some of the imagery was captured at night time giving an insight in to the effects of urban light pollution.
The data is supplied in the raster ECW (enhance compressed wavelet) format, which should be readable by most modern GIS and image processing software. The data is tiled and tile sizes range from 1km x 1km to 5km x 5km and the resolution of the data ranges from 10cm to 50cm. There are three types of imagery available:
Lidar download is available to all institutions that subscribe to Aerial Digimap, meaning that subscribing institutions now have access to another detailed aerial imagery dataset.
For information on subscribing to Aerial Digimap, please see the subscription page.
If you have any questions about the new data or Digimap please contact us:
//We are pleased to announce a new webinar series for Digimap over the coming months. These short sessions are free to attend and are available to any Digimap user, whether staff, student or researcher. You will need to register to attend each webinar. Bookings will open a couple of weeks before each webinar is scheduled. The majority of the webinars will be recorded and made available via our Digimap YouTube channel for those who were unable to attend.
All webinars will run from 13:00-13:30.
Previous webinar recordings, along with slides and Q&A transcripts can be viewed on the webinar materials page.
//May was one of the busiest in terms of dataset updates in the history of Digimap. Around 20 separate datasets have been updated bringing them bang up to date with the most recent data available from the data suppliers. All the updates are listed in the tables below, broken down by the Collection and service that they can be found in.
Withdrawn Datasets (OS Collection):
These withdrawn datasets are still available to download through the Ordnance Survey Data Download application in Digimap, but users should be aware that they are no longer updated by Ordnance Survey. Withdrawn datasets have their own separate category in the Select Data panel in OS Data Download, as shown by the image on the left hand side.
OS Roam:
| Product Name | OS Publication Date |
| 1:50,000 Colour Raster | March 2017 |
| OS Open Map – Local (vector) | April 2017 |
| VectorMap Local (vector) | April 2017 |
| VectorMap District (vector) | March 2017 |
| VectorMap Local Raster | April 2017 |
| VectorMap District Raster | March 2017 |
OS Download:
| Product Name | OS Publication Date |
| VectorMap Local Raster | April 2017 |
| VectorMap District Raster | March 2017 |
| VectorMap District (vector) | March 2017 |
| OS Open Roads | October 2016 and April 2017 |
| OS Open Map – Local (raster) | April 2017 |
| OS Open Map – Local (vector) | April 2017 |
| OS Terrain 5 DTM | April 2017 |
| OS Terrain 5 Contours | April 2017 |
| OS Open Names | April 2017 |
| VectorMap Local (vector) | April 2017 |
| Code-Point with Polygons | April 2017 |
| OS Open Rivers | April 2017 |
Geology Download:
| Product Name | BGS Publication Date |
| Borehole index | April 2017 |
The datset update pages are kept up to date with all dataset updates in the collections:
If you have any questions about the dataset updates or Digimap please contact us:
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March/April 2017 has been a busy couple of months for the Data Team who have been working hard to process a huge area of updated aerial imagery data from the data supplier, Getmapping. The update consists of around 80,000 individual 1km tiles, all captured in 2015, which is approximately 30% of the country.
Prior to the update just over 50% of the data was from 2013 or later; after the update 77% of the data is from 2013 or later.
This means that more up to date imagery is now available for viewing and download through Aerial Digimap for a significant proportion of the country.
The map below shows the approximate distribution of the updated data.
This is the first update we have received from Getmapping, but we are expecting another update later this year containing imagery captured in 2016.
We will add this to the service as quickly as we can to ensure that the most up to date data is always available to Aerial Digimap users. In order to make it clear where the data has been updated, we will add an Availability/Reference Grid to Aerial Download so that users can easily identify if the imagery has been updated in their study area(s). This grid will be added to the system in the next couple of weeks.
We are still investigating the best way to make previous versions of the data available, but in the mean time only the most recent data is available through Aerial Roam and Aerial Download.
We recently ran a webinar highlighting the data and showcasing a number of potential uses for the imagery. The webinar was recorded in full and is available on our YouTube channel. The slides used during the webinar and a transcript of all questions and answers are available on our help page.
The aerial imagery data in the service is 25cm resolution vertical aerial orthophotography supplied by Getmapping PLC, and is the most detailed aerial imagery available for the whole of Great Britain. As well as being a really interesting dataset the imagery also has a number of practical uses across a wide range of disciplines from urban planning and 3D modelling to land use and archaeological studies.
To see if your institution already subscribes to Aerial Digimap, please see our subscribing institutions help page. Information on how to subscribe to the new service is available on the Aerial Digimap Subscription page.
If you have any questions about the service please consult the dedicated Aerial Digimap help pages or contact the Digimap support team using the details below.
OS Data Download:
| Product Name | OS Publication Date |
| Code-Point | February 2017 |
| 1:25,000 Colour Raster | March 2017 |
| 1:50,000 Colour Raster | March 2017 |
| Points of Interest | March 2017 |
OS Roam:
| Product Name | OS Publication Date |
| 1:25,000 Colour Raster | March 2017 |
The OS data update page is kept up to date with all dataset updates in the collections.
If you have any questions about the dataset updates or Digimap please contact us:
//The Digimap team are hosting a free webinar, on Wednesday 26 April 2017, from 1-1:30pm.
The session will give an overview of how to create 3D models in common GIS and CAD packages (ArcGIS Pro, QGIS and AutoCAD) using data downloaded from Digimap.
The session will look at the datasets available from Digimap that are of use for 3D modelling.
You will also have the opportunity to ask questions on any aspect of Digimap.
Registration is required – please note that spaces are limited, so it’s advisable to register early.
//We have updated a number of key datasets in Jan/Feb 2017 in the Ordnance Survey collection of Digimap. These updates bring the datasets available from Digimap inline with the latest versions published by Ordnance Survey. Of particular note are the updates to the two most detailed mapping products available from Ordnance Survey: OS MasterMap Topography Layer and OS VectorMap Local.
OS Data Download:
| Product Name | OS Publication Date |
| Integrated Transport Network (ITN) Layer | December 2016 |
| OS MasterMap Topography Layer | December 2016 |
| OS MasterMap Water Network Layer | January 2017 |
| OS VectorMap Local | January 2017 |
| OS VectorMap Local Raster | January 2017 |
| MiniScale | January 2017 |
| OS Terrain 5 Contours | January 2017 |
| OS Terrain 5 DTM | January 2017 |
| OS Open Names | January 2017 |
| Code-Point with polygons | January 2017 |
| Code-Point Open | February 2017 |
OS Roam:
| Product Name | OS Publication Date |
| OS MasterMap Topography Layer | December 2016 |
| OS VectorMap Local | Jan 2017 |
| OS VectorMap Local Raster | Jan 2017 |
| MiniScale | January 2017 |
The OS data update page is kept up to date with all dataset updates in the collections.
If you have any questions about the dataset updates or Digimap please contact us:
