Edina Geoservices Review - Emma Diffley

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Presentation given as part of the EDINA Digimap GeoForum 2013 on Thursday 20th June 2013 at the Congress Centre, London.

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EDINA Geoservices Review

What are we doing, where are we going?

What does EDINA offer?

http://edina.ac.uk/maps/

Digimap Carto….

• Carto is being withdrawn on 31 July 2013

• Where did the functionality go?– Key aspects already added to Roam

– Further enhancements in progress

Enhancements to Roam

• Annotations: Save, Open, Import and Export (to various formats)

• Printing from Ancient Roam to PDF

New print options

• All Roams will support (currently in OS only)

– A4 to A0 printing

– user defined scale within given ranges

In future for all Roams…

• In progress…

– new cleaner interface, consistent across all Roams

– convergence of look and feel across all Collections

– better printing controls

– simpler, combined map and annotation Save/Open

– Additional overlay options coming soon (boundaries, contours…)

Data Improvements

• VectorMap Local Shapefiles– converted all tiles to Shapefile– Layer files for symbolisation are in

production

• VectorMap Local DWG – converted all tiles to DWG – coming soon

• OS MasterMap ITN– improved performance with

reduced file sizes

• OS MasterMap Topo– DWG planned soon …

VectorMap styling for Strategi®

• Potential for some features not to be shown at smaller scales e.g. tourist symbols

Meridian 2™ and LandForm Panorama – VML styling

Harmonising Data Download

• All OS data provided through one client…– encompasses MasterMap Download and Boundary

Download– includes all OS Open Data and Digimap Licensed data

• New Geology Download available soon – same framework as OS Data Download– includes Borehole data and the Lexicon of Named Rock

Units

Help and Support Enhancements

• New Resource Centre

• Revised Learning Resources

• More and reorganised Case Studies

• New eLearning modules for AutoCad coming soon

• Improved service videos and presentations

Digimap Resource Centre

You don’t need to log in to browse the Resource Centre

GoGeo

• More resources added and “Editors Picks” highlighted

• Search for data among 20,000 records from data providers around the world

• Workshop resources introduce importance of metadata

• Keep up to date

– Blog

– Twitter - @go_geo

– www.gogeo.ac.uk

ShareGeo Open

• www.sharegeo.ac.uk

• Over 210 resources

• All are open and free to use

• projects/research/teaching

• Cite URI in publications

• Deposit your own data?

FieldTrip GB

Data collection App for iPhone and Android

1.Design your own data capture project

2.Capture your data

3.Export it to KML /CSV/GeoJSON

Home Mapping Capture Review

GeoTagger

Your Picture

Upload

Existing ExifMetadata

Use map to locate where picture was taken

Export image

http://tagger.edina.ac.uk

• Example of one being made here:Europe – Small

area, big drinkers

N. America – Big area, big drinkers

India – Big area –light drinkers

http://cartogrammar.edina.ac.uk

Cartogrammar

UKBORDERS…where did it go??• UKBORDERS is now:

The UK Data Service Census Support Unit

• Go to: http://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/

UK Data Service Census Support

• All applications now in the UK Data Service style

• Functions and data remain unchanged

• Training now available via webinars

• All support enquiries to go via online enquiry page

• Some things still in state of flux

Accessing Census Geography data

What is on the horizon?

• Still awaiting news on funding

• Ideas on “mobilisation”

• Keen to hear your ideas on new data

• New support

materials

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