We are pleased to announce that subscription rates (see below) for Geology Digimap have been reduced following the British Geographical Survey's decision to make their data available free for academic use.
| JISC Band | 1 Aug 2010 – 31 Jul 2011 |
| A-B | £1338 |
| C-D | £986 |
| E-F | £519 |
| G-J | £290 |
Geology Digimap is part of the Digimap Collection of online mapping and data delivery facilities.
Delivered by EDINA, it includes data licensed from the British Geological Survey (BGS):
- 1:625,000 Scale themes (UK coverage – vector data)
- Solid Geology
- Drift Deposits
- 1:250,000 scale themes (GB coverage – vector data)
- Solid Geology
- Drift deposits (Incomplete)
- 1:50,000 scale themes (GB coverage – vector data)
- Solid geology
- Drift deposits
- Mass movements
- Artificial ground
- DigRock – NEW from 1 August
- DigSBS – NEW from 1 August
It also gives access to the Lexicon of Named Rock Units which
contains detailed information on many of the rocks found on the map.
Geology
Digimap enables users to:
- view maps through their web browser
- save maps for printing
- download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems
