All the new and enhanced features in Digimap from the last 12 months.

1. Geoforum: Digimap Update 2016
New and Enhanced features in
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. Last year, we said we were working on…
• Refresh of Digimap Home page
• Tablet friendly Digimap
• New Historic Downloader
• New Marine Roam (Raster Charts)
• Geology Roam/Marine Roam data updates
• Additional site rep stats (all collections)
• New version of Help system in HTML5
• Ancient Roam – add current data to 2-up view
• Improved OS and Geology cartography

4. Last year, our progress…
• Refresh of Digimap Home page 
• Tablet friendly Digimap 
• New Historic Downloader 
• New Marine Roam (Raster Charts) 
• Geology Roam/Marine Roam data updates 
• Additional site rep stats (all collections) 
• New version of Help system in HTML5
• Ancient Roam – add current data to 2-up view 
• Improved OS and Geology cartography 

5. What we have achieved in 2015-2016
• Main achievements – highlights and details – all those and some more
Applications
– New Chart Roam for Marine application
– New Historic Download application
– Site Rep stats for all collections
– New Homepage design
– Responsive design
Data
– New and updated Geology and Marine data
– New and updated to OS data
– Added contemporary maps to Ancient Roam
– Added Land Cover 2007 Vector data
– Added Scotland’s Greenspace map
– OS MasterMap Plan style for CAD users
– Improvements to geo referencing of CAD data
– Easier use of 3D data

6. • Some examples..

7. Geology data improvements
• Additional basemaps
• Sorting of legend by age
• Additional products (10K, 25K)

8. New Chart Roam in Marine Collection
• Full range of charts
• Multiple scales
• Mosaicked together to form
continuous view
• Updated data
Replaced Marine Mapper

9. Historic Download
• Show coverage grids
• Download multiple series at
the same time

10. Ancient Roam
• Compare Historic and
Current mapping in 2–up
mode

11. Environment Digimap
Land Cover 2007 Vector data
available for download
New Historic Download
application

12. Scotland’s Greenspace Map
• Available to download
in the OS Collection

13. Scotland’s Greenspace Map

14. New OS MasterMap Topography Cartography
Existing
New
- Existing style will still be available as a Basemap

15. New OS data recently added

16. New OS data recently added
OS Highways Network and Water Network to come when
released by OS

17. Improvements for CAD Users
• Outline/plan version OS
MasterMap in DWG format
• 3D buildings in DWG format
• OS Terrain 5 and 50 contours
in DWG format with 3D
contours
• All Georeferenced correctly
in CAD
• Tested in AutoCAD, Revit,
Rhino 5

18. Building Height Attribute data (BHA)
• Enhancement to Topography
layer
• Covers around 10,000 km2 of
major towns and cities in GB -
see where:
– http://bit.ly/1zvKI9q
• In future will be included in
Topography layer
• EDINA supplies as 5x5km grid
tiles
• CSV, KML, DWG or File
Geodatabase formats

19. Easier use of 3D in ArcGIS Pro

20. Site Rep Support
Stats for all
Collections now
available

21. Refresh Digimap Home Page
- Responsive
- No login popup
- Highlight News & Events
- Simpler navigation
- Accessible
- Supports deep linking

22. Refresh Digimap Home Page
Can deep link to here: http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/os
Or to the application: http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/roam/os

23. Responsive Design
iPhone
iPad

24. Help & Support
• Online Chat facility
• Q & A Forum

25. Resource Centre
Updates to the
Resource Centre
- New GIS/CAD
resources
section

26. Training - Webinars
Past
http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/training/training.htm#learning_and_teaching_resources/webinar_materials.htm

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