Presentation delivered by Carol Blackwood at the Jisc FE Windows project workshops in rwp Llandrillo Menai, Llandudno on 24th June 2014. The slideshow showcases the new Digimap for Colleges service for FE, which is based on the successful Digimap for Schools online service.

1. Digimap for Colleges – coming soon!
24th June 2014
Carol Blackwood
EDINA, Geoservices Support

2. Current service offering

3. 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

4. Truly multi disciplinary

5. A brief mention
• New pricing bundle available
2014/15
• Digimap collections complete
bundle for FE
• All Digimap collections for £210
- £263

6. 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

7. Our solution

8. Based on

9. 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

10. Digimap family

11. 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®

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Demonstration ……
http://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk

16. Same functionality, different design

17. Same functionality, different design

18. Same functionality, different design

19. 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)