Geospatial Services at EDINA

Digimap Collections

View, annotate and print maps; Download data for GIS and CAD software

– Ordnance Survey maps and data including: MasterMap Topo and ITN; OS OpenData; Colour Raster maps

– British Geological Survey, on and offshore maps and data; plus detailed rock information and photos

– Historic Ordnance Survey maps from 1843 to 1996 at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:10,560

– Marine Charted Raster maps, and Hydrospatial and Bathymetry data for the UK coastal zone

GoGeo

Find - GI resources, news, books, software and events

Learn - resources that help you understand metadata and standards

Discover - centralises metadata from a number of sources making it easy to find data

geodoc

Describe - Create and export standards compliant metadata to support your data

ShareGeo Open

Find – search for user-contributed datasets

Re-use – download datasets for research, teaching and learning

Share – contribute your own datasets for others to use

Open – there are Open and Digimap licensed versions for datasets with different origins

Unlock

Unlock – the potential in your data with our simple web services

Unlock Places – Find the locations and shapes of places, and re-use them in your application

Unlock Text – Extract place names from text or metadata to find their locations with a geo-parser

UKBORDERS

Access – digitised boundaries and geographic lookup tables for the UK

Create – thematic maps using your data and supported geographies

Datasets available:

  • Census boundaries (historic and current)
  • Administrative boundaries
  • Electoral boundaries
Digimap for Schools

An online mapping service providing Ordnance Survey mapping to schools

Search, view and print a wide range of maps

Enhance maps with annotation and measuring tools

agcensus

Map and download data derived from Agricultural and Horticultural Censuses of Great Britain

Provides realistic estimates of what is produced, how much is produced and where it was produced.

Data Library Services and Projects at EDINA

mantra

Research Data Management Training (MANTRA) is a course designed for PhD students and others who are planning a research project using digital data

mantra

A searchable, historical database of the people of Edinburgh, Scotland

Search – for surnames, places and professions listed in historic Post Office Directories

API – Build searches into websites; view results on web maps

Maps – Use historical maps overlays to view search results

Contact us at: edina@ed.ac.uk
EDINA, Causewayside House
160 Causewayside, Edinburgh
United Kingdom EH9 1PR

EDINA is the Jisc-designated national data centre at the University of Edinburgh.

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