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December 2010: Volume 15 Issue 4
Marine Roam provides a simple mapping interface to SeaZone’s Hydrospatial data, giving access to detailed offshore information around the coast of the UK. Hydrospatial data has not previously been available as part of an online mapping application; we at EDINA believe this is a unique facility.
Marine Roam allows users to display, customise and print the majority of the data at a number of fixed scales. Fixed zoom levels ranging from approximately 1:2,500 to 1:6 million are available and the map content is customisable to allow selection of features required for a particular purpose. The Hydrospatial data is so rich that a series of 'base maps' have been pre-rendered, one for each scale, to improve the usability of the maps.
Marine Roam is available now, adding to the suite of existing applications in Marine Digimap, which also contains scanned and georeferenced marine maps at scales ranging from 1:3,500,000 to 1:2,500 available for making maps online or for download. The Hydrospatial vector data provided in Marine Roam, containing a huge range of themes covering all aspects of marine spatial information, is also available for download using a separate facility.
Free trials are also available; please contact the EDINA Helpdesk for further information.