Digimap for Colleges – coming soon!

24th June 2014

Carol BlackwoodEDINA, Geoservices Support

Current service offering

Digimap current functionality

• Whole of GB mapping• Different collections (Ordnance Survey base

maps, geological, environmental, historical, marine)

• Print maps at various scales and sizes• Customise maps (text labels etc)• Import your own data to annotate maps (gpx

data, kml files)• Download data to use in GIS• Functionally rich

Truly multi disciplinary

A brief mention

• New pricing bundle available 2014/15

• Digimap collections complete bundle for FE

• All Digimap collections for £210 - £263

The problem

• Digimap often seen to be too complicated for FE audience

• Overwhelming number of functions and data

• Need for a simple OS mapping application

Our solution

Based on

Digimap for Schools

• Award winning service• Intuitive, easy to use interface• > 1700 schools across GB• Subscription based service• Free learning resources across key stages• Excellent annotation and measurement

tools incl photo upload and buffering• But colleges teach GCSEs and A levels

Digimap family

Free service, available Aug 2014

• Online mapping service designed for 14-19 year olds

• Offers the ability to customise and print maps anywhere in GB

• Ordnance Survey mapping covering all of GB (updated annually)

• 12 different zoom levels derived from 8 OS digital mapping products incl 1:25k, 1:50k and OS MasterMap®

Digimap for Colleges

• Students can annotate maps by– Adding their own text labels– Defining lines and areas of interest and

adding their distance/area measurements– Adding photos– Creating buffers around points/lines

• Annotations can be saved and retrieved• Create print A3 & A4 print files• Create image files for use in ppt/docs

Digimap for Colleges

• Online service, no software installation or data management

• Browser based – PC, laptop, iPad, Smartboard

• Campus based IP access– limitless number of users per college

• Learning resources• Twitter feed

Digimap for Colleges

• Service relevant across many curricula GCSE, A level, HNC/D, BTEC

• Relevant to many subjects beyond Geography e.g. travel and tourism, logistics, farm management, identifying potential business locations, customer mapping

• Registration via Jisc Collections catalogue

Demonstration ……

http://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk

Same functionality, different design

Same functionality, different design

Same functionality, different design

Try it yourself

www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk

• Find your house, your college or any other place of interest to you

• Try different ways of searching: placenames, postcodes, zooming & panning

• Use the annotation tools to plot your journey to work

• Save any of your maps using the ‘Save Map’ tool• Explore the resources available (go to the homepage, click Free Resources on the left)