Examples of Applications using OS data
The following are examples of applications for which OS data was used at the Digimap project trial sites. From October 1997 to December 1999, the Digimap Project demonstrator service supported more than 800 individually-registered end users at six sites. The demonstrator service was used across a wide range of academic departments (see list below), and by users across the academic spectrum: staff (48% of users), postgraduates (24%) and undergraduates (28%).
The demonstrator service was replaced by the national Digimap Service in January 2001, and EDINA's continuing evaluation shows that the National Service is supporting the same breadth of subject areas. The National Service's users have a different spread than the demonstrator, reflecting the fact that the National Service has become an embedded part of the academic infrastructure within institutions: staff (29% of users), postgraduates (24%) and undergraduates (47%).
- Agriculture
- Development impact on agricultural land around the urban fringe
- Quarries on farms
- Archaeology
- Clava Excavation project
- Field school training excavation exercise
- Architecture
- Newcastle Quayside design
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Locating interference sources (transmitters) and assessing topography for suitable telescope situation
- Biological Anthropology
- Demography
- Cellular Science
- Clinical medicine
- Celtic studies
- Place names in the Highlands and Islands
- Civil Engineering
- Policy sensitive traffic signal control
- Traffic management studies
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Hydrological model of River Almond catchment
- Computer Science
- 3D visualisation of landscapes
- Aberdeen beach hazards
- Continuing Education
- Location modelling of Bronze Age settlements and burials
- Ecology and Resource Management
- Manganese mobilisation from upland catchment
- Economic and Social History
- Evaluation for teaching
- Economics
- Externality fields produced by Tottenham Hotspur football club
- Regional analysis of demographic and economic issues
- Electrical Engineering
- Access to water for testing data signals
- Externalities of wind energy
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Position location using mobile radio and GPS
- Engineering
- Wind damage to buildings in the UK
- Geography
- 18th century Bedfordshire
- Car distribution
- Deglaciation of Eastern Scotland
- Environmental change in west Reading area
- Phosphorous modelling in the River Kennet
- Sustainable tourism and waste management
- Terrain modelling for air flow/large bird interaction
- Geology
- Shoreline management in Lincolnshire
- History
- Historic Towns Atlas
- History of Merton College, Oxford and its estates
- Land Economy
- Site development appraisal
- Library
- Identifying EU Structural and Regional Fund Boundaries
- Management
- Housing projects
- Marine Sciences and Coastal Management
- Trace gas photo production in estuaries
- Mathematical Sciences
- Modelling rainfall with respect to topographical variables
- Medical Sociology
- Area health project
- Physiological Sciences
- Evaluation for Epidemiology
- Planning
- Brownfield sites
- Statistics
- Population decline in townships in the Ross of Mull
- Teaching and Learning Service
- Development of information and computer technology resources for learning
- Town and Country Planning
- Wylam planning development
- Zoology
- Distribution of water voles
- Seal behaviour
EDINA is a JISC National Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh
