Presented by Anne Robertson at the "Mapping the Nation: Representations of Scotland 1200 - 2000", National Museum of Scotland, Saturday 26 April 2014

1. Mapping the Nation: representations of
Scotland 1200-2000
26th
April 2014
Anne Robertson
EDINA, University of Edinburgh

2. Outline
• Background - EDINA & Digimap
• Service description
• Service functions and features
• Subscription info
• Historical features on contemporary
mapping
• Making maps
• Historical mapping

3. EDINA @ the University of Edinburgh

4. Digimap for the HFE sector

5. Digimap for Schools mapping
• Online mapping service designed for
schools
• Offers the ability to customise and print
maps anywhere in GB
• Contemporary mapping at 12 zoom
levels based upon 8 Ordnance Survey
map products including OS MasterMap®
• Historic mapping Ordnance Survey 1
inch mapping published 1895-1899

6. Digimap for Schools customising maps
• Pupils 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

7. Digimap for Schools set up
• Online service, no software installation
or data management
• Browser based – PC, laptop, iPad,
Smartboard
• One login per school – limitless number
of users per school
• Can be used out of school (e.g. at
home or outdoor learning centre)
• Free resources blog and twitter feed

8. Digimap for Schools subscription
• Whole of school resource - History,
Biology, PE, Maths
• Annual subscription charge
– £69 Primary
– £86.25 Secondary < 604
– £120.75 Secondary < 1659
– £143.75 Secondary 1660+
• Easy online registration process with
immediate access

9. Digimap for Schools
Using Digimap for Schools to bring
history to life …….

10. Castles

11. Castles

12. Romans

13. Battle of Bannockburn

14. Folkore

15. Map making (but first quick quiz)
• 6th
century - settled by an early Christian hermit
• In the early 15th
century King James I imprisoned his political
enemies here
• By the 16th
century location of one of Scotland’s most important
castles
• Mary Queen of Scots had a garrison of 100 men stationed here
in early 16th
century (incl French troops)
• In 1546 the Lauder family rebuilt the small chapel above the
castle
• After the Battle of Killiecrankie, it was the only Jacobite
stronghold, until in 1690, 2 years after the battle, they were
starved into submission
• Features in Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1893 sequel to Kidnapped
• In 2010 during his visit here David Attenborough ‘one of the
wildlife wonders of the world’

16. Answer ……. Bass Rock

17. Map making

20. Historical maps

21. 1890s slidebar

22. 1890s map

23. 1890s peak of railway before Beeching

24. Replaced with roads and cycle network

25. Thanks
120 secondary schools in Scotland
Today - come and have a play
Thanks
Anne Robertson
a.m.robertson@ed.ac.uk