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EDINA Digimap
Guidance for Digimap Site Reps
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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OS OpenData™
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Historic Digimap
• Licence expires 31 July 2011• No change to pricing• http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue
/coll_digimap_historic.aspx
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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
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Marine Digimap
• Licence expires July 2010• Details of new licence not yet available
from JISC• http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue
/marine_digimap
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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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)
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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
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• 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
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Historic Digimap services
Make maps and download data – available until
September 2010
Ancient Roam,
mapper – intro. April 2010
Historic Download
tool – intro.
April 2010
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Ancient Roam homepage
Help and navigationTask
menu
Timeline
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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
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Plan View 1
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Historic Downloader
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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?
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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
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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
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Geology Digimap Home Page
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Task menu:
Search, customise maps, map info.,save maps
Map fade slider – control display of background OS mapping
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Geology map views
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Detailed View
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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?
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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.
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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
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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?
• Keeping up to date with Digimap
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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?
• Keeping up to date with Digimap
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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
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Site Reps – Getting Support
• EDINA Helpdesk– email: [email protected]– telephone: 0131 650 3302– fax: 0131 650 3308
• EDINA Digimap website:– http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/support
• Email discussion list for Site Reps:– [email protected]
• Local support e.g. GIS experts
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Ancient Roam screenshots
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Street View 1
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Parish View 2
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Shire View 2
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Search
Search options:Place name, full postcode or Grid
Reference
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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)
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Place name search
Shire View returned from Place name search
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Postcode search
• Full postcode required
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Postcode search
Parish view returned from Postcode search
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Timeline
• Decades with available maps (for this view) highlighted in blue
• Decade of current map highlighted in red
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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
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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
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Available maps
• Available map from 1960s
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Get map details
• Click one anywhere on the map for details of the map shown
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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
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Overlapping maps
•In this image, Middlesex has been selected from the overlapping map selection tool
•Blurriness is reduced
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Historic Downloader screenshots
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Select product
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Select product 2
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Select Edition, Search
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Select tiles
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Select tiles
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Select tiles
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Check order
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Check order
Original map sheets that correspond to your tile selection automatically added
to order
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Order confirmation
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Geology Roam screenshots
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Place name search
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Place name search 2
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Place name search - Plot view
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Map content control
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Map fade slider 1
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Map fade slider 2
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Map fade slider 3
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Map Information
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Map Details
Click once anywhere on the map for details – in next phase,
selected polygon will
be highlighted
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MyMaps
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MyMaps
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MyMaps
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