Earlier this year, I was involved in producing a major pack of resources for subscribers to the Ordnance Survey's Digimap for School mapping product.
Paula Owens of the GA and myself produced over 70 resources which would take students from Early Years up to GCSE level (with the ideas being transferrable beyond that...)
I am now going to be working on some ideas for Edina's MapStream product.
This product will be available shortly.
An annual subscription will be £35 for a Primary school, and £50 for a Secondary school...
This is less than half the price of Digimap for Schools.
The difference is that the stream will just be supplying the Ordnance Survey maps to an existing piece of software that the school can use to view the maps.
It uses something called WMS: web map service. This means that the data is streamed in. Maps can also be embedded on websites.
It works with ArcGIS software, open source packages such as QGIS or Quantum GIS - also something called gvSIG (as used on a training course I went on at the British Antarctic Survey a couple of years back) which is Portuguese originally.
It will also work with Google Earth and Aegis 3 I understand, the latter with a Mapstream module.
The service is perhaps designed for those who want to use Ordnance Survey mapping products, but would prefer to use them in a 'client' of their choice. In other words, if you already have something that can access WMS you can just pay for the mapping data, which you don't need to worry about storing on your own network.
More to come as I get stuck into this new mapping option, and look at how it can be used effectively in the geography classroom....
Paula Owens of the GA and myself produced over 70 resources which would take students from Early Years up to GCSE level (with the ideas being transferrable beyond that...)
I am now going to be working on some ideas for Edina's MapStream product.
This product will be available shortly.
An annual subscription will be £35 for a Primary school, and £50 for a Secondary school...
This is less than half the price of Digimap for Schools.
The difference is that the stream will just be supplying the Ordnance Survey maps to an existing piece of software that the school can use to view the maps.
It uses something called WMS: web map service. This means that the data is streamed in. Maps can also be embedded on websites.
It works with ArcGIS software, open source packages such as QGIS or Quantum GIS - also something called gvSIG (as used on a training course I went on at the British Antarctic Survey a couple of years back) which is Portuguese originally.
It will also work with Google Earth and Aegis 3 I understand, the latter with a Mapstream module.
The service is perhaps designed for those who want to use Ordnance Survey mapping products, but would prefer to use them in a 'client' of their choice. In other words, if you already have something that can access WMS you can just pay for the mapping data, which you don't need to worry about storing on your own network.
More to come as I get stuck into this new mapping option, and look at how it can be used effectively in the geography classroom....
Comments