An Update on what EDINA has done to the Digimap service in the last 12 months, and what it plans to do in the next 12.

1. EDINA Report
What we have done and what we’re going to do…

2. The past 12 months…
• Few visible changes
• Improving efficiency and making cost savings
– Improvements to technology and platform
– Moving from Solaris to VMs – more cost effective
– Moving to established open source software where possible
– reducing dependency upon proprietary software
• Limited activity owing to reduced budget
• Updating underlying libraries

3. Continued….
• Data updates including additional products such as OS
OpenMapLocal, Highways Network and Water Network
• New Contact Us system
• Provision of automated usage statistics to Jisc
• Update to Marine Digimap data, Hydrospatial One and
HydroView Charts
– New data available 13 June 2017
– Same terms, different geographical area of data

4. New Collections
• Aerial Digimap
– Launched October 2016
– 32 subscribing institutions
– Well received and well used already
– 30% of geographic area updated; second update due shortly
• Lidar Digimap
– A preview service to establish demand and utility
– FREE for all current subscribers until 31 July 2017
– Online survey: https://edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/lidardigimap

5. The next 12 months…
• Updating all Roam clients
– New technology, new look
– Maintaining all functionality but improving usability and modernising
look and feel
– Parallel running for a transition period
• Updating all Data Download clients
– Building on the Roam update work
• Increases potential to add new functionality to both Roam and
Data Download clients

6. Investment by University of Edinburgh
• Responding to requests
• Improving service to meet changing user needs and ways of
working
• Keeping our service current and useful
• Provision of WMS feeds from within Digimap
– No need to download, style and manage large quantities of backdrop
mapping data
– Easily read by common GIS applications such as QGIS and ArcGIS

7. Data Download Features
• Clipping data to user defined
polygon
– “Hairy data” still likely for vector
products
– Tiled raster data would be delivered
as “part-tiles”
• Improving range of data formats
available

8. Older data and Print Improvements
• Addition of previous versions of data
– Useful for longitudinal studies or just to match map data with the
timeframe of other data
– Archives of Land-Line data from 1997 – 2004
• Improvements to print templates
– Addition of compass rose
– Possibility of adding annotations legend
– Improved legend printing

9. Longer term
• Expansion into new data collections
– Global data such as OpenStreetMap and satellite imagery
– Scoping studies to establish requirements, demand, utility and
viability
– Please share your thoughts on these!

10. Aside from the technical…
• Operating in a reduced budget world
• Aiming to create a sustainable service – still providing it to you
next year
• Consultation with you, listening to your needs