GISRUK 2021: FREE, OPEN, ONLINE Conference 13th – 16th April 2021 TWO WEEK REMINDER – SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS deadline extended until Monday 15th February 2021 We are pleased to invite you to submit a 1500 word extended abstract for the 29th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Conference, which will take place as a fully online event […]
Category Archives: Of Interest
OpenStreetMap… want to know more?
All Digimap users currently have free access to Global Digimap until 31st July 2019 as a trial. We hope you like this new service. If you would like to learn more about the OpenStreetMap data, it’s origins and history, from someone who is more than qualified to tell the story, Steve Chilton is giving a […]
NEW: Crop Map Data in Environment Digimap
We are delighted to announce that Environment Digimap now offers the CEH Land Cover® Plus: Crops dataset. CEH Land Cover® Plus: Crops has been produced by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in partnership with Remote Sensing Applications Consultants and provides annually updated arable crop information for the whole of Great Britain. Environment Digimap is the only […]
WMS functionality added to Digimap Roam
We are very pleased to announce that we we recently added WMS (Web Map Service) functionality to all Digimap Roam applications. This new facility allows you to pull in map data from a whole host of publicly accessible services allowing you to visualise a wealth of data in the familiar Digimap Roam interface. This is […]
Global Roam now available
We are very pleased to announce the release of Global Roam. This builds on the release of Global Download last week and allows users to browse global data in the familiar, user friendly, Roam online mapping interface. Global Roam is very much a work in progress and you will find that some of the standard […]
Digimap Update for the 2018-19 Academic Year
It is the start of a new academic year and we have introduced few new things for you to see in Digimap: A New Home Page Digimap has a new home page! It may look a little different, but it works in exactly the same way as the previous version. Responding to feedback from the […]
New Digimap home page coming…
Digimap is launching a fresh, new-look home page on 1st August 2018. All the functionality of the current page will still be available and easy to find, but the new page will look like this: Links to each Digimap Collection run horizontally across the top of the page, rather than vertically down the left hand […]
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 […]
Digimap comes of age
Those with long memories will remember the launch of Digimap on 10th January 2000. This means that the service has just turned 18! Much has changed since then, with a move from a single mapping application to “lite” and advanced versions through to the recently updated Roam mapping application available today. Changes in web mapping […]