New mapping tool available

Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection today make available  a new mapping tool.  The new tool is called Roam and offers:

• “click and drag” functions to locate your map
• 12 map views at different scales
• printing in PDF at both A3 and A4 sizes
• search by place name, postcode or grid reference
• seamless scrolling through the fixed scale maps and 5 customisable map views

You can access Roam from the icon above Classic in Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection home page.

Roam and is available as a BETA service (and will therefore be subject to various improvements over the next few months).  Planned changes include:

• additional print formats as alternatives to PDF
• inclusion of scalebar on printed maps
• provision of scale and extent indication on screen maps
• adding a “My Maps” function for bookmarking maps

Digimap welcome feedback (positive and negative)  – email edina@ed.ac.uk or telephone 0131 650 3302.

Heriot-Watt has a subscription to the Digimap – Ordnance Survey Collection. Individual registration is also required and can be completed online.  Roam is available to all registered users. Roam will replace the current Classic facility in January 2010.

Sarah Kelly
Subject Librarian

Athens no more!

Users of Digimap may have noticed the recent changes to the login process and that Athens usernames and passwords no longer work.

Fear not! You can still access all the Digimap services that you are used to…you just don’t use Athens to authenticate.

1. At the Digimap website (http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/), click the   button
2. After clicking the login button, the next page with present you with a drop-down menu:
   
3. From this list, choose ‘Heriot-Watt University’, and click ‘Select’
4. The next page will show the HW log-in screen:
   

** Your UID and password are the same as those you use for Vision/Outlook/Webmail **
If you do not know these details, please contact the IT HelpDesk

About Digimap
Digimap is a collection of services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain to UK. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. HW has an institutional subscription to Digimap, and in addition, all users are required by Ordnance Survey to register before they can access the service. If you wish to use Digimap, and have not yet registered, further details are available from the Digimap website.

If you have any difficulties accessing Digimap, please contact the Library

Sarah Kelly
Subject Librarian