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Digimap Training Workshops

EDINA Digimap

Guidance for Digimap Site Reps

Content

• Subscription in 2010-11• Ordnance Survey Collection – recent changes• Historic Digimap – recent and forthcoming changes• Geology Digimap – recent and forthcoming changes• Marine Digimap – recent and forthcoming changes• Screen sharing:

– Ancient Roam?– Geology Roam?– Help & Support pages?

Subscription

• 4 JISC-licensed collections of mapping data

• EDINA designs, and hosts the data for, the 4 browser-based Digimap Collections

• Colleges and universities subscribe to each Digimap Collection separately

Subscription

• Costs depend on JISC banding scheme and on Data Collection– See: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/access/

• Institution has direct contract with JISC

• Annual fee for each academic year, 1 August to 31 July - subscription pro rated for part years

• Digimap OS Collection - OS educational copyright licence required (currently £300 +VAT pa)– may need upgrading from previous licence– available directly from Ordnance Survey

OS Licence Agreement renewal

• Current licence expires 31 July 2010

• Ordnance Survey and JISC Collections working on renewal of licence agreement

• Planned that new licence agreement will run from August 2010 – 31 July 2016 (opt-out option every 2 years)

• Subscription fees for 2010-11 will not increase from current levels:

• http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue/digimap_os

OS OpenData™

•OS public consultation on OS OpenData™ now complete: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/ordnancesurveyconsultation

•EDINA Digimap blog posting on the release of Ordnance Survey datasets for free use and re-use:

http://edinadigimap.blogspot.com/2010/04/os-opendata.html

OS OpenData™

Historic Digimap

• Licence expires 31 July 2011• No change to pricing• http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue

/coll_digimap_historic.aspx

Geology Digimap

• Licence extended to July 2011• http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue

/coll_geol_digimap• Subscription rates reduced for 2010-2011:

• BGS now make data freely available to academic community

Marine Digimap

• Licence expires July 2010• Details of new licence not yet available

from JISC• http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue

/marine_digimap

Content

Ordnance Survey Collection

Key changes in 2009-10:• Roam launched, Classic removed• Licence extended to July 2010, with

variation agreement:– Change to definition of authorised user– Change in available OS map data products– http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/description/products

Content

• Subscription in 2010-11• Ordnance Survey Collection – recent changes• Historic Digimap – recent and forthcoming

changes• Geology Digimap – recent and forthcoming

changes• Marine Digimap – recent and forthcoming changes• Screen sharing:

Historic Digimap

Recent changes:

• Ancient Roam launched – May 2010– Addition of Town Plans – scales of 1:500, 1:528 and

1:1056 (only for towns with population of 4000 or more)

– 12 fixed scale Historic map views– Select available Historic maps from any decade,

from a timeline– Slippy maps

Historic Digimap

• Historic Downloader launched – May 2010– Up to 200 maps in a single download– Browse contemporary maps to see coverage– Town Plan data available to download, as well

as the County Series (1843 to 1939) and National Grid series (1944 to late ’90s)

Historic Digimap

• Both new facilities are BETA – please give us your feedback

• Ancient Roam, Historic Downloader and Historic Digimap (existing map making and data download facility), will run in tandem until September 2010

Historic Digimap

• Removal of Historic Digimap in September 2010

• Additional functions in Ancient Roam:– PDF Printing– View 2 maps– View 4 maps– Map fade slider, to show transition between

maps of different dates– Ability to download the original map sheet data

which makes up your current on-screen view

Historic Digimap services

Make maps and download data – available until

September 2010

Ancient Roam,

mapper – intro. April 2010

Historic Download

tool – intro.

April 2010

Ancient Roam homepage

Help and navigationTask

Timeline

12 Historic map views in Ancient Roam

Historic View name

Number of views Scale of data used in view

Plan (most detailed) 4 views 1:500 – 1:1250

Street 2 views 1:2500

Parish 2 views 1:2500 - 1:5000

Shire (least detailed) 4 views 1:10560

Plan View 1

Historic Downloader

Content

• Subscription in 2010-11• Ordnance Survey Collection – recent changes• Historic Digimap – recent and forthcoming

changes• Geology Digimap – recent and forthcoming

changes• Marine Digimap – recent and forthcoming changes• Screen sharing:

Geology Digimap

• Launch of Geology Roam – key improvements over existing map making facility:– 12 fixed scale map views– Dynamic legends– Slippy maps– Map fade slider, to control amount of background

Ordnance Survey mapping on display– MyMaps facility, to permanently save user created

maps– A3/A4, landscape/portrait printing

Geology Roam

Forthcoming changes:•Additional functions in Geology Roam:

– map-based links to the JIDI geology image collection

– polygon highlighter

– ‘save image’ function

– links to rock lexicon

•Withdrawal of existing Geology Mapper, by the end of 2010

Geology Digimap Home Page

Task menu:

Search, customise maps, map info.,save maps

Map fade slider – control display of background OS mapping

Geology map views

Detailed View

Content

• Subscription in 2010-11• Ordnance Survey Collection – recent changes• Historic Digimap – recent and forthcoming changes• Geology Digimap – recent and forthcoming

changes• Marine Digimap – recent and forthcoming

changes• Screen sharing:

Marine Digimap

Make fixed scale maps with Charter Raster data (Admiralty

Charts)

Download Charter Raster data (Admiralty

Charts)

Download Hydrospatial (vector) data, 8 data themes available e.g. bathymetry data, socio-economic data, conservation

and environment etc.

Marine Digimap

Forthcoming changes:• Marine Roam

– SeaZone Hydrospatial mapping application

– with controllable thematic layers, enabling user-customised maps

– slippy maps – more zoom levels– more print options: PDF,

variable paper size

• Beta Application intended for Autumn 2010 release

Content

• Keeping up to date with Digimap

Content

• Keeping up to date with Digimap

Keeping up to date

• Digimap Home page – announcements – service downtimes, new products etc

• Digimap blog – RSS feed available:– http://edinadigimap.blogspot.com/

• Training and webinars – RSS feed available:– http://edina.ac.uk/events/

• http://edina.ac.uk/supportstaff/ - n.b. more about access, not service specific

Site Reps – Getting Support

• EDINA Helpdesk– email: edina@ed.ac.uk– telephone: 0131 650 3302– fax: 0131 650 3308

• EDINA Digimap website:– http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/support

• Email discussion list for Site Reps:– digimap-support@jiscmail.ac.uk

• Local support e.g. GIS experts

Ancient Roam screenshots

Street View 1

Parish View 2

Shire View 2

Search

Search options:Place name, full postcode or Grid

Reference

Place name search

•Place name search uses 1:50000 Scale Gazetteer - no street name search available•Enter place name, click Find•Click once on desired result e.g. London (City of London)

Place name search

Shire View returned from Place name search

Postcode search

• Full postcode required

Postcode search

Parish view returned from Postcode search

Timeline

• Decades with available maps (for this view) highlighted in blue

• Decade of current map highlighted in red

Navigation

• Zoom in/out using zoom bar

• Zoom in by double clicking• Zoom in/out using mouse

scroll wheel

• Pan NSEW using compass• Click and drag on map to

move in any direction

Available maps

• Zoom in/out takes you to different view• NOTE: When you zoom in/out, Ancient Roam remembers the

last decade you viewed – may receive No historic maps available message

• Click on the decade(s) with available maps

Parish View 2 maps available from 1910s and

1960s in this area

Available maps

• Available map from 1960s

Get map details

• Click one anywhere on the map for details of the map shown

Overlapping maps

•County series maps (1843-1939) can overlap each other, e.g. in the image above Essex, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey county maps overlap in London

•Where overlaps make the map blurry, as above, tool available for selection of particular county map

Overlapping maps

•In this image, Middlesex has been selected from the overlapping map selection tool

•Blurriness is reduced

Historic Downloader screenshots

Select product

Select product 2

Select Edition, Search

Select tiles

Check order

Original map sheets that correspond to your tile selection automatically added

to order

Order confirmation

Geology Roam screenshots

Place name search

Place name search 2

Place name search - Plot view

Map content control

Map fade slider 1

Map fade slider 2

Map fade slider 3

Map Information

Map Details

Click once anywhere on the map for details – in next phase,

selected polygon will

be highlighted

MyMaps

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