EDINA newsline
March 2010: Volume 15 Issue 1
Following the successful release of Roam, the new Digimap web mapping application for viewing and printing Ordnance Survey maps, EDINA’s Geo Team are now busy building new “Roam style” mapping applications for the other Digimap Collections.
First to go live will be Ancient Roam Beta. This will provide not only the historical maps already available through Historic Digimap but also the wonderfully detailed historical Town Plans covering all of the major towns and cities in Great Britain from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries.
Along with this extra data, Ancient Roam will offer many functional improvements, such as a better interface, bigger, higher quality on-screen maps and improved printing.
Following Ancient Roam will be Roam equivalents for Geology Digimap and Marine Digimap. As well as the built-in benefits which Roam brings with it, new custom functionality is being built into the respective mappers. Geology Roam will have additional features, like links to geological photo libraries, and Marine Roam will be specifically built to deliver the thematic SeaZone Hydrospatial marine and coastal zone management data – opening up a whole new way of viewing and using marine spatial data on-line.
Ancient Roam Beta will be released in late Spring 2010. Geology and Marine versions will be released during Summer 2010.
New “Roam style” interface brings increased usability to Historic Digimap
