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Digimap for Schools wins gold certificate

The new Digimap for Schools service has been awarded the gold certificate for the best overall resource in the Geographical Association’s 2011 Publishers’ Awards.

Digimap for Schools

Digimap for Schools is a joint venture between EDINA, Ordnance Survey and JISC Collections and provides easy access to a wide range of current Ordnance Survey maps (including national coverage of OS MasterMap, Landranger and Explorer series as well as street level maps and road-atlas style maps).

The Geographical Association's Publishers’ Awards aim to recognise material which is likely to make a significant contribution to geography in primary schools, secondary schools or colleges, and to encourage the creative development of new materials.

The Award was presented at the Geographical Association’s Annual Conference at the University of Surrey on 14th April to EDINA’s Director Peter Burnhill and Ordnance Survey’s Director General and CEO, Vanessa Lawrence.

Subscribing schools can use a seamless digital map of Great Britain at each scale. Maps can be printed with an individual’s own map title and name included with the scale bar and school name and address and keys are available to explain the symbols used within the map.

This is splendid recognition for all those who have worked together on Digimap for Schools to bring Ordnance Survey mapping into the classroom.

Peter BurnhillDirector, EDINA

Item originally published 22nd April 2011.