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Geography: Contemporary Online maps

Library support for Geography

Contemporary online maps of Great Britain

Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection

*Please note that Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection does not include Northern Ireland maps*

Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection contains maps of mainland Great Britain at scales ranging from 1:1,250 up to 1:750,000. There are scanned raster maps which are digital versions of Ordnance Survey's paper maps as well as vector maps at a range of scales including OS MasterMap®, the most detailed large scale mapping.

The service includes many other products from Ordnance Survey including postcodes, administrative boundaries, a gazetteer of place names and digital terrain models.

Standard tasks that Digimap allows you to perform are:

  • selecting your area of interest in Great Britain by zooming and panning
  • viewing maps at one of the pre-defined scales
  • printing maps at A4 to A0 size, in either landscape or portrait
  • annotating maps with symbols, lines, polygons and labels
  • downloading a PDF., PNG, JPG print files for printing later
  • Setting a user defined scale for printing

The Data Download feature allows those with more specialist requirements to download map data for use eg in GIS software.

If you have any problems accessing Digimap, please contact digimap@qub.ac.uk 

Land Cover online maps of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Environment Digimap

Environment Digimap provides access to Land Cover data from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Separate datasets are available for 1990, 2000, 2007 and 2015, all national coverages. Also included are Dudley Stamp’s maps of the 1930’s Land Utilisation Survey of Britain.

If you have any problems accessing Digimap, please email digimap@qub.ac.uk

Contemporary online maps of Northern Ireland - OSNI

The Centre for GIS and Geomatics is an interdisciplinary research and teaching centre for Geographical Information Science and spatial data analysis, based in the School of the Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University Belfast.

The centre has access to the full range of OSNI products, including Contemporary mapping, historical maps, orthophotography and multispectral imagery.

If you are a QUB staff member or student, please email gis@qub.ac.uk to gain access. 

Contemporary online maps of the Republic of Ireland - Tailte Éireann

The GeoHive service provides access, through a data catalogue and a map viewer, to a range of authoritative publicly available Irish spatial data, including topographic, street address and aerial imagery.