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Digimap Roam
10 February, 2010
Carol Blackwood
Vivienne Carr
Session content
• New underlying technology for Digimap
• Roam – key features
• Carto – key features
• Keeping up to date with Digimap developments
• Questions
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New underlying technology
• What is the new technology?
– CadCorp
• What does it do?
• What does this mean for our users?
• Benefits:
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Enhanced quality maps
Faster map generation
Clear prints in a single format – PDF
Adobe Reader 8.1 is required to view prints
EPS, PNG are no longer available
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Digimap Roam
•OS Collection – now 2 mapping facilities
•Classic removed January 2010
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Roam
Key features of Roam:
• 12 fixed scale map views
• Simple search options: postcode, place name,
grid reference
• Enhanced navigation – additional zoom and pan
options
• Print A4, A3, landscape or portrait
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Map tools
Task menu:
Search, Map
Content, Print,
Map Info,
MyMaps
Map pane
Hints & Tips
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Carto
Key features of Carto:
• User selects scale
• Some options available on map product selection
• Additional search options; easting/northing, limit
place name search results by feature type (e.g. city,
town, farm, antiquity) or location
• Print PDF in A4, A3, A2, A1, A0
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Select scale
Search, Map
Content,
Save maps
Navigation and
measurement
tools
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Navigation
• Zoom in/out
– Fishbone
– Double click to zoom in
– Scroll wheel on mouse
• Pan
– Click and drag the map
– Compass
• Full extent / Previous / Next views
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Search – Place name
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Search – Place name
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Search – Place name
Local view
map returned
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Search - postcode
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Search - postcode
Street view
map returned
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Search – 100 x 100 km OS tile
Regional
view
SE
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Search – 4 figure grid reference
Metropolitan
view
SE4182
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Search – 6 figure grid reference
Local view
SE416820
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Print
•PDF format – print or
download PDF file
•A3 / A4
•Portrait or Landscape
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Map Content Control
Available in:
•Metropolitan View
•City View
•District View
•Detailed View
•Plan View
•Other views user raster products, cannot be customised
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Map Content Control
List of layers
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Map Content Control
Uncheck
boxes to
remove layers
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Help & Support
• Short, narrated, Digimap Roam video:
http://www.edina.ac.uk/digimap/support/screencam.shtml
• Help pages
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Keeping up to date
• Digimap login page
• [email protected]
• http://edinadigimap.blogspot.com/ (RSS available)
• http://edina.ac.uk/events/
• http://edina.ac.uk/supportstaff/
• Helpdesk - [email protected]
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Questions?
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