EDINA newsline
June 2007: Volume 12 Issue 2
A trial version of the new OS Mastermap data delivery facility, MasterMap Download, is up and running and in use by seven early adopter institutions: the Universities of Leeds, Liverpool, Liverpool Hope, Kingston, Oxford, Central Lancashire and the West of England. MasterMap is the Ordnance Survey’s replacement for Land-Line, the most downloaded product from Digimap. MasterMap is more complex and structurally different from its predecessor and will require users to rethink how they use and manage their data. Of the four MasterMap layers offered by Ordnance Survey, Topographic and Integrated Transport Network (ITN) layers will be available through Digimap.
The MasterMap Download facility will be available to all individually registered users in all subscribing institutions from September 2007 (those registered under Class accounts will not be able to access data).
Land-Line data will continue to be available through the existing Data Download facility until August 2008, although we will be encouraging users to switch to OS MasterMap data instead of Land-Line data. The OS MasterMap data will also be more up to date than the Land-Line data, as EDINA received the last update for Land-Line in May 2006.
The Land-Line maps available through Digimap will also be replaced by OS MasterMap maps in September 2007. This means that the Detailed View maps in Classic, Land-Line maps in Carto and postcode backdrop maps in Postcode Query will be replaced by OS MasterMap maps. The look of the maps will change, but the content will be almost identical.
The availability of OS MasterMap will have an impact on subscribing institutions in the following areas:
The EDINA MasterMap website (below) has documentation to assist you in making sure your institution is ready for MasterMap. EDINA will be running MasterMap training during the summer and autumn of 2007. Further information regarding dates and venues for these courses will be posted on our website soon.