Universities

SeaZone is providing Higher and Further Education institutions easy access to marine geographic information through an agreement with the Joint information Systems Committee (JISC) and the launch of Marine Digimap by EDINA in January 2008.

Marine Digimap is part of the Digimap Collection of on-line mapping and data delivery facilities. The service allows users to view maps through their web browser, save them for printing and download the marine and coastal data for use in geographical information systems.

Two SeaZone datasets (SeaZone HydroSpatial and Charted Raster) are available from Marine Digimap as maps generated online or as data to download.

Marine Digimap provides the following:

• An easy to use interface to allow you to view and print Charted Raster marine maps.
• A simple data download facility which allows you to search for and download Charted Raster or SeaZone HydroSpatial data for your area of interest.
• On-line help with using Marine Digimap, and understanding the marine data and their use in Digimap and GIS software.

Institutions wanting access to the service are required to pay an annual subscription and to sign a JISC licence agreement. Subscription charges for Marine Digimap are available on the JISC web site:

http://www.jisc-collections.co.uk/catalogue/marine_digimap

Once Subscribed Marine Digimap is available free to all staff and students within that institution. Individual user registration is required, which can be done online (this normally takes less than 2 working days).

If you would like further information on Marine Digimap or have any queries about using the marine maps and data or the web interface, please email the EDINA Helpdesk (edina@ed.ac.uk) or telephone on 0131 650 3302.

For all other inquiries, please contact SeaZone directly. Please note that the Digimap service is available only for academic research and education. For commercial or sponsored research projects using SeaZone data, a standard digital data agreement is required.