Presented by Addy Pope at RGS-IGB in London on 28 August 2014. An overview of the Digimap online mapping service and its evolution over time.

1. GIS in Education – tales from a data provider
Addy Pope
Research and geodata service
EDINA
Photo: Addy Pope

2. Digimap – the beginning
Digimap Carto Beta circa 1999

3. Digimap – Today
Digimap Roam – VectorMap Local

4. Stats overview overload
This presentation could easily have been 15
minutes of excel plots and charts

5. So what?
Registered Users > 50, 000
Data Holdings 3.5 Tb
Data through put 25 Tb
Mastermap spatial objects 550 million objects
OK, so use has gone up, data downloads have
gone up.
But what does this actually mean?

6. Students change
http://retsyb.wikispaces.com/file/view/evolution.jpg/294297586/800x271/evolution.jpg
• Their needs change through time.
• Services must evolve to meet users needs
• PC or Mac / Smartphone / tablet / WiFi everywhere /
greater access to software / instant access to
resources

7. Users Change
Geoscience is in the minority.
What do users actually want to do?
Or rather, what do they want to avoid doing?

8. Understand your users
http://used.blogs.edina.ac.uk/files/2011/09/USeD_Persona.pdf

9. Choices
Web mapping with
neat tools?
or
Web GIS lite?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lori_greig/5331407245/

10. Simple Web Mapping
“The beauty of Digimap is not what you have included, but what you have left out”
- Ed Parsons

11. Customised maps in 2 minutes
Alternative representations – make the map you want without even
knowing what GIS is.

12. Learning through using

13. Multiple formats

14. More than just the data

15. Tales from a data provider
edina@ed.ac.uk
@go_geo / @edina_digimap
www.digimap.edina.ac.uk

16. Digimap for Schools

17. Digimap for Colleges