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Newsline from EDINA
October 2006, Volume 11, Issue 3
image©2006 Tom Armitage
Digimap will be broadening its mapping portfolio with the addition of data from the British Geological Survey in early January 2007. The geological maps will be augmented by the Lexicon of Named Rock Units, a database of information about all geological units displayed on the maps. The new service will be called Geology Digimap.
Following an agreement made between the Higher Education Funding Councils and the British Geological Survey (BGS), JISC have funded EDINA to provide through an online service some of the Digital Geological Map of Great Britain (DiGMapGB) data to the Further and Higher Education community.
The BGS data available are:
Geology Digimap will be part of the Digimap Collections; its look and feel will be familiar to existing Digimap users, and intuitive to all, regardless of their level of experience with maps. Users will be able to view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing, and download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems. Access will be through the normal Digimap Collections login page. Once your institution subscribes, just pick the Geology Digimap link from the Digimap Collections page after the login.
Geology Digimap will be available under licence from JISC; subscription fees are given on the Collections pages of the JISC web site. Note that the BGS maps and data are available under a separate licence and subscription to other Digimap Collections.
A preview service will be made available during November 2006. If you would like to be an early adopter, and take part in associated workshops and usability testing, or just need more information, please contact EDINA (edina@ed.ac.uk).