EDINA newsline
June 2010: Volume 15 Issue 2
Two new beta services have recently been launched to benefit users of Historic Digimap:
Ancient Roam is a new mapping facility within Historic Digimap, based upon the Roam mapping client available from Digimap's OS Collection, and includes features such as ‘slippy maps’, and zooming.
Features specific to Ancient Roam include selecting historical maps from any decade (depending on availability) using a ‘timeline’, an easier means of identifying and selecting maps in areas where County Series overlap and single-clicking to display the year the map was published along with other information.
The large-scale Town Plans are now available in both Ancient Roam and Historic Download. These are the largest scale historical maps available from Digimap, at 1:500, 1:528 and 1:1056 scales.
Only settlements with a population greater than 4000 at the time of surveying were mapped at this scale.
Currently available as a beta service, Ancient Roam will continue to undergo development over the coming weeks, including the following proposals:
Ancient Roam is running in parallel with the original Historic Digimap interface, which will be withdrawn in September 2010.
Launched as a beta service on 20 April 2010, Historic Download is an entirely new facility to select and download larger quantities of historical map data.
The interface has been designed to improve selection and retrieval of larger quantities of data for research projects. Users can build up a list of the data, choose maps from different editions of a given product and take up to 200 maps in a single download.
EDINA welcomes feedback on the service and proposed developments. Please contact us on edina@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 3302