St David’s Head © Crown copyright/SeaZone Solutions Ltd [2007]. All rights reserved. Not to be used for navigation. This image is reduced in size from an original supplied by Marine Digimap.
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March 2008: Volume 13 Issue 1
St David’s Head © Crown copyright/SeaZone Solutions Ltd [2007]. All rights reserved. Not to be used for navigation. This image is reduced in size from an original supplied by Marine Digimap.
The fourth Digimap collection, Marine Digimap, was launched in January 2008.
This new collection offers marine and coastal zone maps and data from SeaZone Solutions Ltd, providers of marine datasets which are based on the surveys of the UK Hydrographic Office and many other sources.
Similar in approach to the existing and well-known Digimap collections, Marine Digimap offers an online mapping facility and two data-download interfaces, providing SeaZone's Charted Raster and Hydrospatial products. The look and feel of Marine Digimap will be familiar to existing Digimap users, and just as easy to use.
The online mapping facility offers Charted Raster data, which are scanned and geo-referenced tiff images of the Admiralty Chart series for the UK. These maps would be excellent for use as backdrops or general maps for a wide range of different areas of study. However, they must never be used for navigation.
Marine Digimap is available under a licence agreement that is separate from the other Digimap collections, and requires end-user registration.
Trials are available for those institutions considering a subscription. Please contact the EDINA Helpdesk for information. Subscription costs and details of how to subscribe to Marine Digimap can be found on the JISC Collections website below.