The document provides an overview of new and enhanced features coming to Geo and Digimap services. Some key points: - Quality improvements have been made to backend systems to improve performance and reliability. Additional data sources have also been added. - Last year achievements included a new registration system, addition of more geospatial data, and launching Digimap for Colleges. Support resources like webinars and help pages were also expanded. - Upcoming work includes refreshing the Digimap homepage, adding tablet compatibility, and releasing new versions of tools like Geology Roam with additional basemaps and sorting capabilities.

1. Geoforum: Digimap Update 2015
New and Enhanced features coming
to Geo and Digimap Services
Guy McGarva

2. Quality Improvements
• We’ve listened to what you have wanted through
surveys, support requests, discussions etc..
See Quality Improvement Plans at
http://edina.ac.uk/impact/ for details of what
has been requested and what we are doing.
• We have also made a lot of improvements to back-
end systems to make the website faster, more
reliable and resilient e.g. load balancing and new
versions of software.

3. Last year (2014-2015)
• Main achievements
– New registration system
– Lots more data added to the services (OS, Geology)
– New OS licence finally signed
– More formats e.g. BHA in File Geodatabase, MM Topo
in FGDB and DWG
– Dudley Stamp data added to Historic Collection
– Marine Downloader created
– Support: Chats, Webinars, Help pages, Q & A
– Digimap for Colleges launched

4. Also completed…Other Geo services
• UK Data Service Census Support –
became ‘Open’ - no login
necessary to download data
• Enhancements to Unlock,
including adding historic English
place-names (DEEP) and
improvements to the API
• GoGeo – adding language
conversion, a mobile app,
support for Gemini 2.2. and
updating GeoDoc resources

5. Working On…
• Refresh of Digimap Home page
• Tablet friendly Digimap
• New Historic Downloader
• New HydroView Roam (Raster Charts)
• Geology Roam/Marine Roam data updates
• Additional site rep stats (all collections)
• New version of Help system in HTML5
• Ancient Roam – add current data to 2-up view
• Improved OS and Geology cartography

6. • Some examples..

7. Geology Roam – coming soon
• Additional basemaps
• Sorting of legend by age
• Additional products (10K, 25K)

8. Refresh Digimap Home Page
- Responsive
- No login popup
- Highlight events
- Simpler navigation
- Follow JISC guidelines
- Accessible
- Something like this but not this!

9. New MasterMap Cartography
Existing
New
- Existing style will still be available as a Basemap

10. New OS data recently added
PointX [points of interest] OS MasterMap ITN - Urban Paths Theme
OS MasterMap Sites Layer OS Terrain 5

11. Future developments
• Outline/plan version
OS MasterMap in DWG
format
• 3D buildings in DWG
format
• OS Terrain 5 and 50
contours in DWG
format

12. Building Height Attribute data (BHA)
• Released by OS in March 2014
• Enhancement to Topography
layer
• Covers around 10,000 km2 of
major towns and cities in GB -
see where:
– http://bit.ly/1zvKI9q
• Alpha release – no guarantee
error free
• In future will be included in
Topography layer
• CSV, KML or File Geodatabase
formats
• EDINA supplies as 5x5km grid
tiles

13. New Service: Digimap for Colleges
Launched last year

14. GoGeo Mobile App
• The GoGeo mobile App has been developed

15. Fieldtrip GB/ Fieldtrip Open
• An Edina based alternative to Dropbox as storage provider
• Multi-page complex forms with dependencies
• Thumbnail images in selection lists (e.g. showing examples of butterfly
species)
• Ability to upload existing POI’s
• Ability to upload map overlays
• Updated base maps (using new OS vector data)
• Fieldtrip Open – Open Street Map data for use outside UK

16. Geo Projects
• COBWEB
Creating a testbed environment to enable citizens living within UNESCO
designated Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile
devices
• Palimpsest, January 2014 – April 2015
Providing access to vivid, evocative and dramatic excerpts of a wide range
of geolocated Edinburgh-based literary texts either via the web resource, or
in the city streets via a smartphone or tablet.
• Spatial Memories, February – August 2014
Enabling people with disabilities to become more independent and less
reliant on others in making spatially aware reminders, hints and checklists
using a smartphone app.

17. Help & Support
• New online Chat facility
• Q & A Forum

18. Responsive help pages

19. Resource Centre
Updates to the
Resource Centre
- New GIS/CAD
resources
section

20. Training - Webinars
Past
Planned

21. Longer term aims
• Integrate Geo services together more
• Make more use of available web data feeds
• Make user workflows simpler and more
complete
• Provide solutions to common problems to
do with the data life cycle
• Increase utility and value of services
• Improve support resources and capabilities

22. What do you want to see?
• Data
• Functionality
• Support

23. Using BHA data from Digimap in ArcGIS Pro
A case study in using BHA data from
Digimap in ArcGIS Pro

24. What are BHA?
• BHA are Building Height Attributes
from Ordnance Survey
• Released as Alpha product in 2014
• Provide multiple values for heights
of buildings (both absolute and
relative)
• Covers most major cities and towns
(but not all)
• Supplied by Ordnance Survey as
5km tiles in CSV format
• Linked to OS MasterMap
Topography Layer (i.e. building
footprints) by TOID

25. Using BHA CSV and OS MasterMap
To start with we created a version of the BHA CSV
with a modified TOID that could be joined more easily
Need to Join the data on TOID

26. Using data from OS directly
However…
- Lot of steps
- Slow when dealing with large datasets
- Needed to use a schema.ini file to load the CSV correctly
- Required ArcGlobe or ArcScene to visualise the 3D buildings

27. So what have we done?
So, to make is easier to use we have:
- Created a File Geodatabase version using
FME that contains the Building geometries
from OS MasterMap Topography Layer
combined with the BHA data.
- Used ArcGIS Pro to visualise the data.

28. Using File Geodatabase BHA in ArcGIS Pro
• Download BHA File Geodatabase from Digimap
• Open BHA File Geodatabase
• Convert map to 3D
• Extrude buildings
• More advanced steps
– Add background data
– Add in more detailed Terrain 5 data
– Set up symbology and representation
– Add in other vector data (e.g. Trees, POI)
Now the steps are:

29. First step is to download all the data
For Example:
- Building Height
Attributes
- MM Topography
Layer
- OS Terrain 5 DTM
- VectorMap Local
Raster
- PointX POI
Download in File
Geodatbase, Shape
or other suitable
format

30. Load Data in ArcGIS Pro
Add data…
(same as in ArcGIS)

31. Convert to 3D
Convert map to
3D
(on the View
tab)
Then drag vector layers to
the 3D Layer

32. Extrude to 3D
1. Set the Ground
Extrude the building to Max Height using attribute [relhmax]

33. Add Backdrop Data
Using VML Raster data from Digimap

34. Add More Detailed Terrain
• By default ArcGIS Pro will use a global
terrain dataset
• To use more accurate terrain, download the
OS Terrain 5 dataset from Digimap
• Add Preset  Ground
• Select downloaded .ASC files

35. Add Representation
Can do simple solid colours or use more
complicated ‘Procedural Symbols’

36. Use Procedural Rules
Can either use ones that come with ArcGIS Pro
or import ones from City Engine
• Using built in
“International
Building”
Procedural
Rule
• Set
[TotalHeight]
to be
calculated
from the
[relhmax]
attribute
• Building
type set to
“Office”

37. Add Trees and POI
Add “Realistic Trees” for tree features from OS MasterMap and 3D
Symbols for features from PointX POI

38. Add Imagery background
Using Esri Imagery Basemap
Also set background colour for sky and Illumination for shading

39. Caution!
• Remember projections!
• If you overlay OS data on one of the Esri
Basemaps you must use a Transformation
(preferably OSTN02)
• In ArcGIS Pro this is done by selecting the
Properties of the Map and then
Transformation

40. The Final Result

41. Other GIS are available and will do similar jobs
QGIS
AutoCAD/Infraworks
Instructions are available on our Help pages