Digimap

Connection to Digimap

What is it?
Digimap is a Collection of EDINA services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. The Library has access to the following Digimap collections

  • Digimap - Ordnance Survey Collection
  • Historic Digimap - historic maps from Landmark
  • Geology Digimap - geological maps and data from the British Geological Survey
Digimap - Ordnance Survey Collection
Digimap allows users to view and print contemporary and current Ordnance Survey maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales. Advanced tasks that Digimap enables are:
  • downloading map data for use, for example, in GIS software on a user's own desktop
  • advanced cartographic tasks, such as user-specified scale, combining datasets on a map, large format printing
  • gazetteer functions on place names
Digimap allows the user to create bespoke maps, download data or simply view information online.

More detailed information is available from EDINA.

Historic Digimap - historic maps from Landmark
This historic mapping facility delivers Landmark historic Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain to UK Higher and Further Education.
The service includes the following maps:
  • all available County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10560 scales published between 1843 and 1939
  • all available National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales published from 1945 and before the introduction of the OS digital Land-Line product.
From the historic map facility it is possible to print maps and download them as geo-referenced images for use in GIS or image processing software. The facility also allows you to view up to four maps simultaneously, enabling you to see how the maps have changed over time.
Existing Digimap users do not need to register again to use this new service.

More detailed information is available from EDINA.

Geology Digimap
Geology Digimap delivers geological maps and data from the British Geological Survey (BGS). Geology maps and data are available at scales of 1:50,000, 1:250,000 and 1:625,000. You can view maps through a web browser, save maps for printing and download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems.

The following data are available as both maps generated online and as data to download:
  • 1:625,000 solid and drift geology
  • 1:250,000 solid and drift geology
  • 1:50,000 solid and drift geology, mass movement and artificial ground
  • the BGS Lexicon of named Rock Units
Offshore mapping is not included in this licence agreement.
Existing Digimap users do not need to register again to use this new service.

More detailed information is available from EDINA.

How to Register
The service is available to all members of the university, but before you can access the system you must carry out a registration procedure for Digimap.

Please note that all users must register with the new service, which started in January 2000, even if you were registered before with the trial service which ended in December 1999.

In order to register you must login to Digimap via the UK Access Management Federation using your campus id and password. At the Digimap home page select Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection and the Digimap Registration Page will appear. Scroll down and click on the Continue button to start the registration process.

Once you have filled in all the details, submit the form, (it is recommended that you print a copy of the form and keep it for your own personal use). Edina will check your registration and inform you by e-mail when your registration has been activated; it usually just takes a few days.

Use of the Service
Your attention is drawn to the conditions of use of OS data from Digimap, which set limitations on the purposes for which the data may be used, publications using the data, long-term storage of data and where the data may be used from. A copyright acknowledgement on all maps containing OS data from Digimap is mandatory. EDINA provide a Frequently Asked Questions page with detailed explanation of all these points.

Printing
A4 black and white maps can be printed from most pcs linked to a printer. In addition,
A variety of printing options are available from the pc in Print Services reception on Level 1 of the Robinson Library. Maps can be plotted on the pc and they will be printed in Print Services and collected and paid for at the Print Services reception desk.
  • A4 colour maps - £0.50 per map.
  • A3 colour maps - £1.00 per map.
  • A0 colour maps - Costs vary so please ask at the Print Services reception desk.
Help and Support
Your local Digimap Representative is Linda Kelly (Government Publications Librarian, x7667). Contact us by e-mail at digimap-support@ncl.ac.uk.

For assistance with registration or if you have a query about your registration, contact digimap-support@ncl.ac.uk in the first instance.

If you need help getting started with Digimap, see the online help including the Quick Reference Guide (which you can print off.)

You can find FAQs, EDINA quick reference guides, Ordnance Survey user guides and information on all OS products available through Digimap from http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/support.

For technical help with GIS and using the Digimap data, ask your lecturer.

Digimap Download
This guide, authored by Oxford Brookes University, provides further guidance on how to download mapping data from Digimap for use in CAD or GIS packages. In particular, section 4 covers the conversion of NTF files into DXF files (for AutoCAD).

Digimap Case Studies
Details of Digimap case studies, including 'highlights' by subject are available from Digimap's Case Studies web pages and from e-MapScholar teaching case study index.