Digimap goes to school

Screenshot of Teacher demonstrating Digimap for Schools

Teacher demonstrating Digimap for Schools. © Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey and JISC Collections have been keen that the benefits of Digimap are made available to teachers in UK schools. EDINA has responded by developing a new service, Digimap for Schools, launched at Graveney School in Wandsworth, London on 10 November by Vanessa Lawrence, the Director General & CEO of Ordnance Survey, supporting Baroness Joan Hanham, the Minister with oversight for the OS as national mapping agency.

By the end of November over 1400 schools had signed up to gain access online for OS digital mapping, including the popular Landranger and Explorer maps as well as the more detailed OS MasterMap mapping.

The aim now is to investigate how to develop Digimap for Schools so that it can support school teaching at all levels across the curriculum. We hope to engage the interest of both student teachers and researchers into school teaching, as the higher and further education sector contributes to the success of the schools sector. Offers of help are invited.

Further information about the service is available from the Digimap for Schools website and about subscriptions from the JISC Collections for Schools website: