Presentation given by Guy McGarva, EDINA, as part of the EDINA Geoforum 2014 event on Thursday 19th June 2014 at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh.

1. Geoforum: Digimap Update
New and Enhanced features coming
to Geo and Digimap Services
Guy McGarva

2. Quality Improvements
• We’ve listened to what you have wanted through
surveys, support requests, discussions etc..
See Quality Improvement Plans at
http://edina.ac.uk/impact/ for details of what
has been requested and what we are doing.
• We have also made a lot of improvements to back-
end systems to make the website faster, more
reliable and resilient e.g. load balancing and new
versions of software.

3. New Collection: Environment Digimap
• Launched October
last year…
• Contains Land Cover
data from CEH for
1990, 2000 and 2007
• Roam mapping and
Data Download
clients are available

4. Roams
• Improvements to all Roams
– Ordnance Survey
– Historic
– Geology
– Marine
– Environment

5. New Interface for all Roams
• New cleaner, more
consistent interfaces
to all Roams
• They are all
essentially the same
with minor changes
for different
collections
• Has greatly increased
usage

6. Stats showing increase in screen maps over the years

7. New print interface in all Roams
• Layout Preview – see the
area you are printing – no
more wasted time creating
PDFs of the wrong area
• Variable scale printing in
all Roams (except Historic)
– choose the exact scale
you want your map
• A4 – A0 printing in all
Roams
• Can now print overlapping
maps in Ancient Roam

8. Improved Search
• Not much visible change but now includes street
names and partial postcodes (e.g. EH9)

9. Finally…printable Legends
• Create a printable PDF
Legend in all Roams (except
Historic)
• Geology Legends are
Dynamic – i.e. they only
shows features on the map

10. Data Download Clients
• New Geology Download
launched in August last year
• New Data
– Northern Ireland Land Cover
data from CEH
– More Geology data from BGS
including Geological
Indicators of Flooding and
Permeability

11. New Formats for OS MasterMap
OS MasterMap Topo in DWG
– already implemented – makes life a
lot easier for CAD users
Coming Soon…
• OS MasterMap as File Geodatabase
– Will make it much easier to load into
ArcGIS and QGIS
• OS MasterMap buildings as KML with
Heights (Alpha version)
• Uses FME for on-the-fly-conversion

12. Coming Soon: New Basemap Data in OS Roam
• More Basemaps in Roam
– VectorMap District – raster
and vector versions will be
available as alternatives to
50K Raster
– We will be replacing OS 10K
Raster with VML Raster
– All 3 versions of Miniscale will
be available

13. New data and improvements... Marine
• New High Res Bathymetry
data for Marine – now 30m
resolution rather than 180m
• Updates to Hydrospatial and
Raster Chart data
• New Data Download client

14. New data and improvements... Historic
• Improved Metadata for
Historic data in England and
Wales – improved dates for
publication and survey
(Scotland already has it)
• New Historic Download
client similar to OS Data
Download

15. Still to come…
• Updates to Data Download
basket – make it easier to
select different formats
and dates
• Updates to the Digimap
Home Page
• A tablet friendly Digimap
• Site Rep stats for all
collections
• Please provide feedback!

16. New Service: Digimap for Colleges
Coming soon for FE

17. Also working on…
• UK Data Service Census Support –
Will become ‘Open’ shortly - no
login necessary to download data
• Enhancements to Unlock,
including adding historic English
place-names (DEEP) and
improvements to the API
• GoGeo – adding language
conversion, a mobile app,
support for Gemini 2.2. and
updating GeoDoc resources

18. GoGeo Mobile App
• The GoGeo mobile App is being developed

19. Geo Projects
• COBWEB
Creating a testbed environment to enable citizens living within UNESCO designated
Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile devices
• Palimpsest
Providing access to vivid, evocative and dramatic excerpts of a wide range of
geolocated Edinburgh-based literary texts either via the web resource, or in the city
streets via a smartphone or tablet.
• Spatial Memories
Enabling people with disabilities to become more independent and less reliant on
others in making spatially aware reminders, hints and checklists using a smartphone
app.
• Trading Consequences
Exploring data about the economic and environmental consequences of commodity
trading during the nineteenth century.

20. Longer term aims
• Integrate Geo services together more
• Make more use of available data feeds
• Make user workflows simpler and more
complete
• Provide solutions to common problems to
do with the data life cycle
• Increase utility and value of services
• Improve support resources and capabilities

21. What do you want to see?
• Data
• Functionality
• Support