New Webinar Dates - online training

Some new webinars about Digimap have been posted on the EDINA events page:

http://edina.ac.uk/events/

These short sessions are available to any Digimap user, whether staff,
student or researcher.

Should the session times or content not be quite right for you, we will
happily set-up some alternative sessions.

You can contact us to discuss your training needs via the EDINA Helpdesk or you can call our Training Officer, Vivienne Carr, on 0131 651 1852.

OS OpenData

EDINA welcomes the release of Ordnance Survey datasets for free use and re-use. We are actively working to realise to the full the opportunities offered by this new policy for the enhancement and development of new and existing services for research and education.




As many will already know the Government published details on 31 March 2010 of the package of datasets and products from Ordnance Survey that are now available under OS OpenData - see http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/. The list coincides partially with the datasets currently available through EDINA Digimap – see below. Note especially that OS MasterMap, the large-scale vector data, is only available through registration with EDINA Digimap.





The key task for EDINA Digimap is to provide ease and continuity of access to a whole range of geo-spatial datasets, including re-use in materials that are shared in research and teaching. We are therefore seeking clarification from Ordnance Survey regarding the licence terms that can now apply to the data available through Digimap which are now covered under OS OpenData.





The release of many Ordnance Survey datasets as open data is also good news for Unlock, the EDINA service which is there to help you geo-enable research data and other Internet-accessible documents and images. Unlock, and its predecessor GeoCrossWalk, were previously limited by license to academic use only. Relevant datasets now regarded as open data, including Boundary-Line, Code-Point® Open and the 1:50 000 gazetteer of place names, can now be used by Unlock Places, Unlock Text and Unlock Geocodes.





We are keen to learn from users of Digimap how you wish us to take best advantage of these changes in availability and licensing. Contact us by email on edina@ed.ac.uk or leave a comment on this blog.

Product Name	EDINA Digimap	OS OpenData
OS MasterMap Topography	Yes	No
OS MasterMap ITN	Yes	No
1:10 000 Scale Raster	Yes	No nearest equivalent is OS StreetView
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster	Yes	No
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster	Yes	No
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster	Yes	Yes
MiniScale®	Yes	Yes
Meridian™2	Yes	Yes
Strategi®	Yes	Yes
Land-Form PANORAMA® Contours	Yes	Yes
Land-Form PANORAMA® DTM	Yes	No
Land-Form PROFILE®	Yes	No
Boundary-Line®	Yes	Yes
Code-Point®	Yes	No
CodePoint® with Polygons	Yes	No
Code-Point® Open (point data only; subset of Code-Point®)	No	Yes
1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer	Yes	Yes
OS StreetView	No nearest equivalent is 1:10 000 Scale Raster	Yes
OS Locator	No	Yes
OS VectorMap District (from 1 May 2010)	No	Yes