On 1st August 2018 EDINA launched a new Digimap Collection, one that aims to provide data for the whole world, not just Great Britain. Global Digimap is now available as a beta service as we look to build a suite of datasets, themes and formats that best meets the needs of our users. We will […]
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Aerial Imagery Data available by Year
You can now search and download the imagery data from Aerial Digimap by the year it was flown. This allows you to be sure that you are downloading only the latest data, but it also allows you to download multiple images for the same location taken on different dates. We currently have data from 1998 […]
OS MasterMap Building Height Data gets significant update
Ordnance Survey have released nearly 5000 extra 5km squares of building height data, with the total coverage increasing from 2578 to 7302. Each square has at least one building with height attributes added, with most fully covered. We have added this data to Digimap’s Data Download facility allowing you easy access to the data you […]
Points of Interest now easier to download
The Points of Interest (PoI) data is great for research and you can make fantastic looking maps too as we have been showcasing on our twitter account. You have certainly been making the most of it too, with 16,877 PoI downloads being made since May 2015. Here are 3 dot density maps we made to […]
Digimap for Digital Humanities: An event at King’s College London
EDINA were delighted to co-host an event with King’s College London exploring the benefits of Digimap. We were joined by a full complement of staff and students from both King’s College and other neighbouring universities at the impressive Bush House, and would like to offer our warmest thanks to staff at King’s College for making […]
How much of Britain is built on?
We recently helped out the very talented Alasdair Rae from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield with some research on the buildings of Great Britain. Here is his blog post which is a great work of GIS sleuthery: Buildings of Great Britain As mentioned in his post we assisted […]
GeoForum 2017 Summary
This years GeoForum, held in the Geological Society of London on the 22nd of June, was a very successful event for all those who attended. Academics and support staff from subscribing institutions got to meet representatives from the Digimap team and experts from our data suppliers and the wider geospatial community. In the morning session […]
Lidar Digimap now included with Aerial Digimap
We have now reached the end of the Lidar Digimap Preview. We hope that everyone who has used the service has found it a great way to access the Lidar data available. From now on the service will continue to be available to Digimap Users whose institution subscribes to the Aerial Digimap service. Find out […]
Lidar Digimap – new collection of data available now!
Today we have launched our new Lidar Digimap Collection. The new Collection is available to preview for all Digmap users until the 31st of July 2017. Lidar data can be downloaded through the Lidar Download for use in GIS and CAD applications; there is no Lidar Roam application for viewing the data. The service allows you to […]
Fieldtrip GB Withdrawal
March 2017: Recent changes to the security frameworks on Android and iOS operating systems mean that the current Fieldtrip GB app no longer functions. The app is no longer available from the App Store or Google Play and EDINA are no longer offering support for it. If you wish to create your own app for data collection, please refer to the Fieldtrip Open website: http://fieldtrip.edina.ac.uk/.
If you have data records stored in Fieldtrip GB on your device, you can retrieve them using the following instructions:
- Instructions for Apple devices: Click Here
- Instructions for Android devices will be available shortly