A webinar delivered by EDINA on 7 November 2012. How to view, customise, print and download Ordnance Survey maps from Roam, a service in Digimap's OS Collection.
1. Content
• What is Roam?
• Search, zoom/pan, select features, save
• Customise your map: select features, map style,
annotate, hillshading
• Screenshare – recreate some maps in Roam
• Print and/or save
2. Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection
•View and
print PDF
maps
•Download
data – 3
facilities
•Query
tools
3. What is Roam?
• Facility in Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection
• Create, save and print A3/A4 PDF maps using Ordnance
Survey maps
• 13 fixed scale map views, each view uses a OS map
product with a level of detail appropriate for the scale, e.g.
– National view 1:1,600,000, MiniScale®
– Plan view 1:1,250, OS MasterMap data
• Find out more about Ordnance Survey map products:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/index.html
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4. Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection
•Roam – fixed scale mapping. Print A3, A4 PDF.
•Carto – user selects scale of map. However Carto will not display a
product if it is not sensible to do so at the selected scale...e.g. very
detailed mapping will not be displayed if the user selects a small scale,
say 1:500000. Print A4 to A0 PDF.
5. Carto will be replaced
• Digimap team working on replacement, to be available
2013
• Too difficult to maintain - changes to web browsers
and Java
• Your feedback appreciated on development:
– http://digimap.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/10/12/digimap-carto-we-
need-your-help/
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14. Search – Place name
Local view
map returned
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15. Gazetteer
• Place name search
uses the OS 1: 50000
Scale Gazetteer
• Same database that is
used on the
Landranger Maps
• No street name
searching possible
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20. Search – 6 figure grid reference
Local view
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21. Navigation
• Zoom in/out
– Fishbone
– Double click to zoom in
– Scroll wheel on mouse
• Pan
– Click and drag the map
– Compass
• Full extent / Previous / Next views
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22. Map Content Control
• Allows the user to customise the features they see on
the map, e.g. remove water features, or road features
• Available in 8 views:
• Metropolitan View
• City View
• District View
• Neighbourhood View
• Street View
• Detailed View
• Plan View
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24. Map Content Control
Uncheck
boxes to
remove layers
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25. Map Content Control
• OS maps used
in Roam are
Vector or
Raster map
data.
• We cannot
select individual
features in
raster maps. If
a view uses a
raster map you
cannot
customise it.
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26. Alternative map styles
• Alternatives styles available in 4 most detailed
views: Neighbourhood, Street, Detailed, Plan
• Fond within Map Content Control - Theme
27. Alternative map styles
• In Map Content Control, allows user to choose from a
selection of styles
• Used new data product to create these styles –
VectorMap Local
• http://www.youtube.com/user/EDINADigimap#p/a/u/1/wa
dgUWe3jNA
28. Map Information
Map product,
Coordinates,
Print scale
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29. Annotations tools
• Tools to add lines, shapes, text and labels to your maps
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30. Annotation tools
• Toolbar appears at the top of the screen – can be moved around
• Main options to add annotations in the Draw & Create area - add:
• Add symbols, text, lines, polygons, pre-defined shapes
• Annotations remain on your map at the same scale as you zoom in
and out
• Options: save annotations within Digimap, make visible on PDF print,
export, import
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34. Recreate this map in Roam
• Map of the site for a proposed new hotel
and retail development in central Edinburgh
– Search with a postcode, EH1 1JF
– Zoom in to Plan View
– Centre the map where Cowgate meets South Bridge
– Select Line Drawing Theme
– Add a polygon that covers the empty site
– Add labels for Hotel entrance and Retail Development
36. Recreate this map in Roam
• Project to mark location of water vole survey sites
on Isle of Wight. Only need map of island, with town
information for context.
– Search for Isle of Wight
– Zoom out to City View
– Display A, B, minor roads, coastline, cities towns and
other settlements.
– Add red markers where shown.
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37. Print
• add gridlines, annotations, title
• move map around in preview
• print A3/A4 landscape or portrait