This document summarizes new and enhanced features in Digimap services from 2015-2016. Key updates include a refreshed homepage, responsive design for tablets, a new historic downloader application, marine chart roam with updated data, additions to ancient roam, land cover vector data, and improvements to geology, marine, and OS data. Usability and performance enhancements were also made, such as improved geo-referencing, easier use of 3D data, and a more reliable backend system. Feedback from users helped inform priority quality improvements.

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