digimap roam

Content

• What is Roam?

• Search, zoom/pan, select features, save

• Customise your map: select features, map style, annotate, hillshading

• Screenshare – recreate some maps in Roam

• Print and/or save

Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection

•View and print PDF

maps

•Download data – 3 facilities

•Query tools

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What is Roam?

• Facility in Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection• Create, save and print A3/A4 PDF maps using

Ordnance Survey maps• 13 fixed scale map views, each view uses a OS

map product with a level of detail appropriate for the scale, e.g.– National view 1:1,600,000, MiniScale®– Plan view 1:1,250, OS MasterMap data

• Find out more about Ordnance Survey map products:

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/index.html

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•Roam – fixed scale mapping. Print A3, A4 PDF.

•Carto – user selects scale of map. However Carto will not display a product if it is not sensible to do so at the selected scale...e.g. very detailed mapping will not be displayed if the user selects a small scale, say 1:500000. Print A4 to A0 PDF.

Carto will be replaced

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• Digimap team working on replacement, to be available 2013

• Too difficult to maintain - changes to web browsers and Java

• Your feedback appreciated on development:– http://digimap.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/10/12/digimap-

carto-we-need-your-help/

Roam

•Map panel

•Map tools: hill shading, measure,

annotate, print

•Hints & Tips•Task menu: Search, Map

Content, Map Info, MyMaps

Local View

Neighbourhood View

Street View

Detailed View

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Menus

• Click on a menu item to open it

• Choose to Hide or Display menus with the double arrows

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Search – Place name

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Search – Place name

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Search – Place name

Local view map returned

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Gazetteer

• Place name search uses the OS 1: 50000 Scale Gazetteer

• Same database that is used on the Landranger Maps

• No street name searching possible

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Search - postcode

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Search - postcode

Street view map returned

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Search – 100 x 100 km OS tile

Regional view

SE

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Search – 4 figure grid reference

Metropolitanview

SE4182

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Search – 6 figure grid reference

Local view

SE416820

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Navigation

• Zoom in/out– Fishbone– Double click to zoom in– Scroll wheel on mouse

• Pan– Click and drag the map– Compass

• Full extent / Previous / Next views

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Map Content Control

• Allows the user to customise the features they see on the map, e.g. remove water features, or road features

• Available in 8 views:

• Metropolitan View

• City View

• District View

• Neighbourhood View

• Street View

• Detailed View

• Plan View

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Map Content Control

List of layers

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Map Content Control

Uncheck boxes to

remove layers

Map Content Control

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• OS maps used in Roam are Vector or Raster map data.

• We cannot select individual features in raster maps. If a view uses a raster map you cannot customise it.

Alternative map styles

• Alternatives styles available in 4 most detailed views: Neighbourhood, Street, Detailed, Plan

• Fond within Map Content Control - Theme

Alternative map styles

• In Map Content Control, allows user to choose from a selection of styles

• Used new data product to create these styles – VectorMap Local

• http://www.youtube.com/user/EDINADigimap#p/a/u/1/wadgUWe3jNA

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Map Information

Map product,

Coordinates,

Print scale

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Annotations tools

• Tools to add lines, shapes, text and labels to your maps

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Annotation tools

• Toolbar appears at the top of the screen – can be moved around

• Main options to add annotations in the Draw & Create area - add:

• Add symbols, text, lines, polygons, pre-defined shapes

• Annotations remain on your map at the same scale as you zoom in and out

• Options: save annotations within Digimap, make visible on PDF print, export, import

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Sample of annotations

Hillshading

• Uses Land-Form PANORAMA 1:50,000 data to shade elevated areas

Recreate this map in Roam

Recreate this map in Roam

• Map of the site for a proposed new hotel and retail development in central Edinburgh– Search with a postcode, EH1 1JF– Zoom in to Plan View– Centre the map where Cowgate meets South Bridge – Select Line Drawing Theme– Add a polygon that covers the empty site– Add labels for Hotel entrance and Retail Development

Recreate this map in Roam

Recreate this map in Roam

• Project to mark location of water vole survey sites on Isle of Wight. Only need map of island, with town information for context.– Search for Isle of Wight– Zoom out to City View– Display A, B, minor roads, coastline, cities towns and other settlements.– Add red markers where shown.

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Print

• add gridlines, annotations, title• move map around in preview• print A3/A4 landscape or portrait

PDF print

Keep in touch

• EDINA Helpdesk– email: edina@ed.ac.uk– telephone: 0131 650 3302

•http://digimap.blogs.edina.ac.uk/

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•http://www.youtube.com/user/EDINADigimap

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