The document provides detailed information about urban map data available in CAD format, including various vector and height datasets, as well as backdrop mapping options. It outlines how to download and utilize the data in GIS/CAD environments, while also discussing copyright considerations and sharing restrictions for licensed data. Future developments and available support resources are also mentioned.

1. Digimap – Urban map data for CAD
26 November 2014
Ian Holmes, EDINA Geo User Support
Vivienne Mayo, EDINA User Support

2. Content
• What data is available in CAD format?
• Where do I get the data?
• How do I use the data?
• Copyright and Resources

3. What data is available in CAD format?
• Vector datasets:
– VectorMap Local [DWG]
– MasterMap Topography Layer [DWG]
• Height datasets:
– Terrain 50 DTM and contours [ASCII, Shape, GML]
– Land-Form PROFILE DTM and contours [DXF]
– Land-Form PANORAMA DTM and contours [DXF]
• Backdrop mapping [TIFF]
– Various products e.g. 1:50,000 raster, all in TIFF format
• Other
– Building Height Attribute: extension to MasterMap Topography
Layer [CSV]

4. Vector Map Local data
• Scale 1:10000
• Includes contours and
spot heights
• Formats – GML, DWG, SHP
• Supplied in 5x5km tiles

5. OS MasterMap
• Vector map product, most detailed
mapping available of GB.
• Integrated Transport Network layer
– GML format only.
• Topography Layer – GML, DWG and
File Geodatabase formats.
• Building Heights data added in
2014, CSV or KML format.
• Coming soon:
– Sites Layer
– Urban Paths (ITN layer)
MasterMap Topogaphy Layer (DWG format)

6. Height Data
• Various Raster (DTM)
and Vector (contour)
datasets available:
– Terrain 50 [ASCII, Shape,
GML] – replacement for
Land-Form PANORAMA
– Land-Form PROFILE [DXF]
– withdrawn by OS
– Land-Form PANORAMA
[DXF] – withdrawn by OS
• Coming soon:
– OS Terrain 5 –
replacement for Land-
Form PROFILE
Terrain 50 DTM
Terrain 50 Contours

7. Backdrop mapping
• 9 products available.
• Raster maps – useful as
backdrop.
• TIFF image format.
• Largest scale at top, 1:1000.
• MiniScale smallest scale –
1:1000000.
1:25,000 Colour Raster

8. Building Height Attribute data
• Released by OS in March 2014
• Enhancement to Topography
layer
• Covers around 10000 sq km of
major towns and cities in GB -
see where:
– http://bit.ly/1zvKI9q
• Alpha release – no guarantee
error free
• In future will be included in
Topography layer
• CSV or KML format
• EDINA supplies as 5x5km grid
tiles

9. Data Update Dates
• http://digimap.edina.ac.u
k/webhelp/os/data_infor
mation/os_data_issues/o
s_update_dates.htm#

10. Where do I get the data?
• Data Download
– download OS
mapping data
for use in
GIS/CAD

11. Data Download
• All available OS
map data
• Download several
map products in
one order
• 5 categories of
map data
• 3 steps to order
map data

12. Using Data Download
3 step process:
1. Select area
2. Choose data
3. Add to basket
– Options to
change
format,
version and
layers

13. Basket options
• Select version, format and layers in the basket.
• Options vary between map data products.

14. How do I use the data?
• Add VectorMap Local to AutoCAD Map 3D
• Add OS MasterMap topography to AutoCAD Map 3D
• Combine OS MasterMap with Building Height
Attribute data in AutoCAD Map 3D and InfraWorks

15. Add VectorMap Local to AutoCAD Map 3D
• Download data in DWG format
• Open in AutoCAD Map 3D

16. Add OS MasterMap topography to AutoCAD
Map 3D
• DWG format:
– Will open directly in AutoCAD products
– Includes default OS representation
– Attributes stored as Extended Attribute Data (Xdata),
which is not easy to interrogate
• GML format:
– Can be imported in to AutoCAD
– Minimal representation
– Control over which features are imported
– More detailed attribute analysis possible
– Can control the order in which layers are drawn

17. Combine OS MasterMap with Building Height
Attribute (BHA)
• Download MasterMap Topography layer in GML
format and BHA data in CSV format
• Process BHA data, save as Excel spreadsheet and set
up an ODBC connection to the spreadsheet
• Join BHA data to the MasterMap data in AutoCAD
Map 3D
• Export joined data as .sdf file
• Open .sdf file in InfraWorks and extrude buildings
using BHA value

18. New datasets – coming soon
PointX [points of interest] OS MasterMap ITN - Urban Paths Theme
OS MasterMap Sites Layer
OS Terrain 5

19. Future developments
• MasterMap in outline/plan
format in DWG
• 3D buildings in DWG
format
If there is anything you would like to see added to the service, please send your
suggestions to edina@ed.ac.uk!

20. Publication
• You can publish Licensed Data and materials which contain
Licensed Data
• Subject to some restrictions which are detailed in the Licence
• Includes various publications
• Copyright acknowledgement required:
© Crown Copyright and Database Right [insert date]. Ordnance
Survey (Digimap Licence)
– Copyright acknowledgement is included on all maps printed from Digimap
Collections.
– Remember to include copyright acknowledgement if you download data
from Digimap and create maps!

21. Sharing Licensed Data
• You may only share Licensed Data with:
– other Authorised Users
– Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) members
– One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA) members
– Sponsors who have their own licence for the same data (type and
coverage)
• Sponsored research:
– Results must be published widely and immediately
– Hard copy plots can be supplied to sponsors
– DATA cannot be supplied to sponsors
– Excludes Research Council funded research centres with their own
Ordnance Survey licence e.g.:
 Institute of Hydrology
 British Geological Survey

22. Support with copyright
• Lists of Frequently Asked Questions:
http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/access/licence_ag
reements.htm
• Your site representative:
http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_info/site_r
ep_list.htm
• EDINA Help Desk:
edina@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 3302

23. Resources
• Digimap Resource
centre – access
help pages,
guides, FAQs,
videos, case
studies and more.