Post on 17-May-2015
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Geoforum: Digimap Update
New and Enhanced features coming to Geo and Digimap Services
Guy McGarva
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.
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
Roams
• Improvements to all Roams– Ordnance Survey– Historic– Geology– Marine– Environment
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
Stats showing increase in screen maps over the years
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
Improved Search
• Not much visible change but now includes street names and partial postcodes (e.g. EH9)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
New Service: Digimap for Colleges
Coming soon for FE
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
GoGeo Mobile App
• The GoGeo mobile App is being developed
Geo Projects
• COBWEB Creating a testbed environment to enable citizens living within UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile devices
• PalimpsestProviding 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 MemoriesEnabling 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.
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
What do you want to see?
• Data• Functionality• Support