GIS in Education – tales from a data provider

Addy PopeResearch and geodata service

EDINA

Photo: Addy Pope

Digimap – the beginning

Digimap Carto Beta circa 1999

Digimap – Today

Digimap Roam – VectorMap Local

Stats overview overload

This presentation could easily have been 15 minutes of excel plots and charts

So what?

OK, so use has gone up, data downloads have gone up.

But what does this actually mean?

Registered Users > 50, 000

Data Holdings 3.5 Tb

Data through put 25 Tb

Mastermap spatial objects 550 million objects

Students change

• Their needs change through time.• Services must evolve to meet users needs• PC or Mac / Smartphone / tablet / WiFi everywhere /

greater access to software / instant access to resources

http://retsyb.wikispaces.com/file/view/evolution.jpg/294297586/800x271/evolution.jpg

Users Change

Geoscience is in the minority. What do users actually want to do?

Or rather, what do they want to avoid doing?

Understand your users

http://used.blogs.edina.ac.uk/files/2011/09/USeD_Persona.pdf

Choices

Web mapping with neat tools?orWeb GIS lite?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lori_greig/5331407245/

Simple Web Mapping

“The beauty of Digimap is not what you have included, but what you have left out”- Ed Parsons

Customised maps in 2 minutes

Alternative representations – make the map you want without even knowing what GIS is.

Learning through using

Multiple formats

More than just the data

Tales from a data provider

edina@ed.ac.uk@go_geo / @edina_digimap

www.digimap.edina.ac.uk

Digimap for Schools

Digimap for Colleges