Digimap

http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/

What is it?

Digimap is an EDINA service delivering Ordnance Survey maps and map data to UK Higher Education.The service is funded by the Joint InformationSystems Committee (JISC). Only Great Britain iscovered.

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What can it be used for?

Maps can be produced online for reports and essays at a variety of scales, from very detailed (1:500) to general location maps (1:250 000 or less).

Alternatively, data can be downloaded and inserted into application software such as GIS or CAD.

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How do I access Digimap?

• Digimap is an Athens protected resource. To use it, you will first need to download the Reading Athens cookie from www.reading.ac.uk/library/athens. Alternatively you can log in to Athens for the current browser session.

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How do I access Digimap?

• Digimap is an Athens protected resource. To use it, you will first need to download the Reading Athens cookie from www.reading.ac.uk/library/athens. Alternatively you can log in to Athens for the current browser session.

You will need to register separately for Digimap. You will be prompted to do this the first time you use it.

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How do I access Digimap?

• Digimap is an Athens protected resource. To use it, you will first need to download the Reading Athens cookie from www.reading.ac.uk/library/athens. Alternatively you can log in to Athens for the current browser session.

You will need to register separately for Digimap. You will be prompted to do this the first time you use it.

• You will receive notification that your registration is successful within a couple of days

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How do I access Digimap?

• Digimap is an Athens protected resource. To use it, you will first need to download the Reading Athens cookie from www.reading.ac.uk/library/athens. Alternatively you can log in to Athens for the current browser session.

You will need to register separately for Digimap. You will be prompted to do this the first time you use it.

• You will receive notification that your registration is successful within a couple of days

• To access Digimap, go to the University Library databases page www.reading.ac.uk/library/databases. If you have downloaded the cookie, scroll down to Digimap and connect straight away. Otherwise remember to login to Athens first.

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How do I access Digimap?

• Digimap is an Athens protected resource. To use it, you will first need to download the Reading Athens cookie from www.reading.ac.uk/library/athens. Alternatively you can log in to Athens for the current browser session.

• You will need to register separately for Digimap. You will be prompted to do this the first time you use it.

• You will receive notification that your registration is successful within a couple of days.

• To access Digimap, go to the University Library databases page www.reading.ac.uk/library/databases. If you have downloaded the cookie, scroll down to Digimap and connect straight away. Otherwise remember to login to Athens first.

• You can access Digimap from University computers or from home. Please note however that Data Download (to download data for insertion into a GIS) can only be accessed from University computers.

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What data are available?

The most detailed Ordnance Survey dataset available is MasterMap. This is large scale (1:1 250, 1:2 500,1:10 000 depending on area), comprehensive datadepicting an extensive range of both man-made andnatural features. It can be used to depict a site for study, showing buildings and other features as they exist on the ground:

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Using the same data at a smaller scale, it can alsobe used to show a site’s location within an area:

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This example has national grid lines

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Meridian2 data has a comprehensive road network, railway lines, urban areas, boundaries, water features, woodland and place names, with a nominal scale of 1:50 000. It can be used for location maps. The nextexample includes contour data, taken from Land-Form PANORAMA, which includes contours and digital terrain model (DTM) data at 1:50 000 scale.

Contour data at 1:10 000 is also available, from the dataset Land-Form PROFILE.

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Strategi data provides "Road atlas" style mapping at a scale of 1:250 000, showing major settlements, roads, railways, water features and land use. It is also suitable for location maps:

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Other datasets available include

• Land-Form PROFILE - 1:10 000 contour data• 1:10 000 raster – used to produce OS LandPlan paper maps• 1:25 000 raster – used to produce OS Explorer paper maps• Code-Point with polygons - postcode data

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Historic Digimap gives access to old Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain. Maps available date between 1843-1996 and up to four maps of the same area showing the situation at different times can be compared on screen. Maps can be downloaded as georeferenced tiffs for inclusion in a GIS, or printed out as they are:

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How do I use Digimap?

When you first log in, you will be given a choice of

•Map and Data Collections• Find and Share• or Tools/Developer’s Area

Maps and Data Collections includes the Ordnance Survey Collection (current, contemporary Ordnance Survey maps and map data) and Historic Digimap.

Geology and Marine Digimap are not yet available to the University of Reading.

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If you choose Ordnance Survey data, you will begiven a choice of different services available, with ashort description. These include Roam and Carto,both of which give access to the printed productsdescribed above.

You can still choose Historic Digimap by clicking on the Digimap logo, top left.

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Roam is the easiest version to use; it allows you to create, view and print a simple map at twelve fixed scales.

To create a simple map click on the Roam icon. You will be taken to a map of Britain, with a Task menu on the left which allows you to search, control the map content and print.

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There are two ways to select the location you want to map:

• Zoom into the map using the mouse wheel or the sliding scale bar on the right hand side.

• Enter a place name, post code or grid reference in the search option in the Task menu and click Find.

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• To re-centre your map, click and drag on the map

• To zoom in, use the mouse wheel or the sliding bar at the top right.

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In some of the pre-set views you can choose to include or exclude any of the different features included in that view. To do this, go to Map content in the Task menu.

Set or clear the check box beside each feature in order to include or exclude that feature in your map. The map will update automatically.

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Digimap

To print your map, go to Print in the Task menu. The map will be a pdf, and you can choose A4 or A3, landscape or portrait format.

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Carto is more versatile and consequently more difficult to use, but allows maps to be customised to suit the user’s needs.

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• Areas can be selected by place name, Great Britain map, National Grid reference or coordinates

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• Areas can be selected by place name, Great Britain map, National Grid reference or coordinates

• Scale can be specified

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• Areas can be selected by place name, Great Britain map, National Grid reference or coordinates

• Scale can be specified

Tools allow measurement of distance, bearing and area, so the perimeter and area of a site can be calculated

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• Areas can be selected by place name, Great Britain map, National Grid reference or coordinates

• Scale can be specified

Tools allow measurement of distance, bearing and area, so the perimeter and area of a site can be calculated

Output size can be specified (A4 to A0)

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Carto requires that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed on your PC. If this does not appear to be available on University computers please contact ITS.

Further information

If you are experiencing problems, please make an appointment to see Judith Fox, the Map Librarian (j.a.fox@reading.ac.uk). I can be found on the 2nd Floor of the Library, and I will be glad to help with Carto and with large format printing.

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Additionally there is a lot of documentation and help available (including quick guides to both Classic and Carto) on the Digimap website http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/ Local information for Reading is at www.reading.ac.uk/library/eresources/databases/lib-digimap-local-info.asp

More general information about using maps in the Library can be found at www.reading.ac.uk/library/using/collections/lib-maps.asp

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