Educational Software (Page 2)

This software listed below has been produced  by individual system suppliers, and the accuracy of the information has not been verified.

Arcview^® School Bundle

As an industry standard software product, ArcView provides all the tools necessary to capture, enter, maintain and display geographically related data. For educational establishments ArcView is supplied as a Schools Bundle which includes an extensive range of data and additional facilities.

• Provides immediate access to geographic information available from local authority departments and other organisations and data suppliers when held in a supported format.

• Extensive range of mapping and database tools.
• Comprehensive manuals and on-line help for ease of use.
• Includes 8 CD’s of data for the world, Europe and the United States.
• Links to on-line education resources.

Primarily suitable for Secondary Schools.

ESRI (UK)
Perbendal House
Parsons Fee
AYLESBURY
HP20 2QA
Phone: 01296 745500

Email: info@esriuk.com Website: www.esriuk.com

Eye - Educate (Geographical Applications for schools)

The Eye-EDUCATE suite of applications are available for schools and pupils to utilise digital maps and GIS.

Eye-EDUCATE is available as a series of web-hosted applications empowering the use of geographical data, both within the school and at home, via the Internet. Data from a wide variety of sources can be displayed within the Eye-EDUCATE suite, including Ordnance Survey datasets. Most common data formats are supported, including ArcView^® (SHP), MapInfo^® (MIF/MID), AutoCAD^® (DWG, DXF^TM) referenced and non-referenced raster formats (including aerial images/street plans) and database information, including Microsoft^® Access, Excel, dBase^®, FoxPro^® and text file formats.

Eye-EDUCATE range:

All school groups

• Eye-CREATE – safer journeys to schools (SJ2S);
• Eye-ANALYSE – tool to analyse data recorded by Eye-CREATE; and
• Eye-ANNOTATE – map annotation and plotting.

Secondary school

• Eye-STUDY – enables students to utilise the power of Autodesk^® MapGuide with their GCSE/A level geography projects.

College or university

• Autodesk MapGuide – publish map data to the Internet/intranet.
• Autodesk Map – create, maintain and analyse map data.
• Autodesk Civil 3D – map and ground modelling software.

Suitable for primary and secondary schools.

Allied Integrated Technologies Ltd
Wellingborough Innovation Centre
Church Street
WELLINGBOROUGH
NN8 4PD
Phone: 0870 2406531

Email: info@a-i-t.co.uk Website: www.a-i-t.co.uk

GeoMedia^® UK schools pack

A classroom resource that provides access to Intergraph’s GeoMedia Professional GIS software, together with tools for accessing data from Ordnance Survey (NTF, GML and raster) and other organisations. GeoMedia enables teachers and students to create their own data, produce maps and conduct analysis and reports. Students’ data collected in spreadsheets can be linked to maps and the output presented in word processors.

• Available free under the UK Education Grant Programme.
• Provides a classroom licence of a full-function commercial GIS.
• Create data and import data from Ordnance Survey, GIS and CAD.
• Undertake analysis.
• Design and print maps.
• Links to spreadsheets and word processors.

Suitable for secondary schools.

Intergraph UK Ltd
Delta Business Park
Great Western Way
SWINDON
SN5 7XP

Email: imgS-queryUK@ingr.com Website: http://imgs.intergraph.co.uk

GeoMedia Professional personal student licence

All students in the UK can order a free copy of Intergraph’s desktop GIS package GeoMedia Professional.

• Full-function, commercial GIS.
• Free to all UK students.
• Extensive tools for creating, maintaining and analysing map data.
• Map composition and printing.
• Links to spreadsheets and word processors.

Suitable for secondary schools.

Intergraph UK Ltd
Delta Business Park
Great Western Way
SWINDON
SN5 7XP

Email: imgS-queryUK@ingr.com 
Website:  http://imgs.intergraph.com/education/offerings.asp

GeoMedia Viewer

A free GIS viewer that provides a subset of the GeoMedia Professional product provided in the UK schools pack. Viewer provides easy map viewing, navigation and interrogation of map data through user-defined queries and thematic maps. Analysis and map presentations can be saved and printed.

•  Map navigation
• Attribute query and thematic mapping
• Coordinate readout and measuring tools
• Printing

Suitable for primary and secondary schools.

Intergraph UK Ltd
Delta Business Park
Great Western Way
SWINDON
SN5 7XP

Email: imgS-queryUK@ingr.com Website: http://imgs.intergraph.com/gviewer

Anquet Maps on CD-ROM

Anquet Maps represent an affordable means of obtaining access to the entire up-to-date  Ordnance Survey map coverage at 1:50 000 scale and open up an infinite range of possibilities for teaching support. Additional areas for special study can be added at 1:25 000 scale, and aerial photography is available for England and Wales.

Anquet Maps can be installed on a school network and used in a classroom on a computer or with a digital projector. Navigation is simple to the point that any location in the UK can be ‘on screen’ in seconds.  The software license permits use on up to 35 seats.

The Virtual Landscape^TM feature which converts the maps into a three dimensional view is an immensely powerful tool for teaching and understanding topography. The Virtual Landscape greatly assists the understanding of contour patterns and the visualising of landscapes from contour data.

Unlimited A4 printing makes it possible to provide map copies of the same area for every pupil in the class.

For Field Trips and Duke of Edinburgh Award projects users can plan and plot routes, calculate distance and height gain make route cards and notes and print route maps.

• all UK covered at 1:50 000 and 1:25 000 scale
• unlimited A4 printing at any scale
• 3D viewing for visualisation and interpretation of landscapes
• split-screen viewing with 3D and conventional map views
• free thirty  five seat network for educational users
• route planning for Duke of Edinburgh’s Award events or other outdoor activities
• display of route statistics and profiles
• support for all Garmin® and Magellan® GPS units
   

Anquet Technology Ltd
Cotswold Innovation Centre
42 A P Ellis Road
Rissington Business Park
Upper Rissington
Gloucestershire
GL54 2QB

Phone: 0845 3309570
Email: info@Anquet.co.uk 
Website: www.anquet.co.uk

Memory-Map – digital mapping for the whole of Great Britain

Memory-Map provides digital interactive Ordnance Survey Landranger^® and Explorer™ maps for the whole of Great Britain; the Explorer range covering National Parks and Long Distance Paths also includes aerial photography. Customised mapping is now available in OS Explorer™ mapping for anywhere in GB (up to 2 500km²).  Routes can now be visualised in 3-D - you can pan, zoom, spin – a sophisticated navigation tool.

• Ideal for teaching basic map-work skills through to detailed analysis of routes, settlements and landforms.
• View two maps side by side and turn a 2-D image into 3-D.
• You can plan your route and print your map and even view an elevation profile.
• All Memory-Map software is compatible with the main GPS manufacturers: Garmin, Magellan, Silva, Navman and Suunto X9.
• The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has endorsed Memory-Map as “The Recommended Route Planning Tool”
• Educational licence for up to 35 networked PC’s
• All Memory-Map software can be purchased with eLC’s.
   

Suitable for primary and secondary schools.
 
Memory-Map
Unit 3-4 Mars House
Calleva Park
Aldermaston
RG7 8LA

Phone: 0870 740 9040 (Sales)
Email: sales@memory-map.co.uk   Website: www.memory-map.co.uk

TrackLogs product range

TrackLogs digital mapping products combine quality Ordnance Survey digital data with flexible route management software. Seamless recreational maps are available in both 1:50 000 and 1:25 000 scales for anywhere in Great Britain.

The software tools supplied make route planning easy. A simple point and click with the mouse to get started, then just draw where you want to go. Planned routes can be documented, printed out, transferred to a GPS or stored for later.

TrackLogs also uses the latest satellite data from NASA to create authentic 3-D models of the landscape. View your own route elevation profiles or fly through the virtual terrain from the safety of your PC.

TrackLogs
The Stables
WORMHILL
SK17 8SJ
Phone: 01298 872 537
Email: support@tracklogs.co.uk    Website: www.tracklogs.co.uk

Mapping Skills

Mapping Skills is a skill-and-drill program that uses Ordnance Survey map extracts to teach map reading.

Map extracts for the following scales are used:

• 1:10 000
• 1:25 000
• 1:50 000
• Land-Line

As the maps are licensed Ordnance Survey products the students will get experience in the classroom of dealing with the type of maps that they will come across ‘in the field’. A range of lesson options are available, which can be tailored to suit the amount of classroom time.

The program is interactive and varied. The students are given hints and tips; the program can be set to correct the student's work and all their results can be stored so that a teacher can check on the progress of the class.

A full manual, Quick Tour, Reference Sheet and work sheets are in the
Manuals folder on the CD.

Soft Teach Educational
Sturgess Farmhouse
Lonbridge Deverill
WARMINSTER
BA12 7EA
Phone: 01985 840329
Email: Info@soft-teach.co.uk   Website: www.soft-teach.co.uk

MapsDirect for schools

This Internet-based subscription service delivers an entry-level GIS capability through a web browser. It embeds detailed Ordnance Survey mapping and there is no need to install and maintain locally installed software or data. Annual subscription fee covers every computer in the school.

Provides an introduction to GIS concepts and tools without the need to purchase or install any software.

Provide direct online access to OS MasterMap® for all of England, Scotland and Wales.

Facility to share ideas and projects with other teachers.
Links to other education resources.

Primarily suitable for primary and secondary Schools.

MapsDirect for Schools
ESRI (UK)
Prebendal House
Parsons Fee
AYLESBURY
HP20 2QA
Phone: 01296 745500

E-mail: schools@maps-direct.com  Website: www.maps-direct.com/schools

Digital Worlds GIS

Digital Worlds GIS is an educational package that combines simple yet powerful geographic tools with up-to-date local area data. The Digital Worlds GIS provides the software, data, lesson plans and activities with full support.
Each school is provided with personalised digital data, predominantly focusing on an area of 10 km by 10 km centred on your school, including:

• Ordnance Survey maps at 1:25 000 and 1:50 000 scales;
• high quality aerial photographs;
• historic maps (c1860);
• 3-D elevation data;
• the new Census 2001 of your county; and
• satellite image of your county.

The primary school version has been targeted toward cross-curricular teaching focused on delivering the national curriculum for KS1-2. As well as providing data for geography and history, it will also support activities in subject areas as diverse as ICT, mathematics, science and citizenship.

The secondary school version builds on the strengths of the primary version with added functionality and data, giving an opportunity for more in-depth study focused on geography and ICT.

Digital Worlds International Ltd
Unit 35, Folkestone Enterprise Centre
Shearway Business Park
FOLKESTONE
CT19 4RH
Phone: 01303 297007
Email: sales@digitalworlds.co.uk   Website: www.digitalworlds.co.uk

InfoMapper

InfoMapper is designed to deliver Ordnance Survey digital maps, UK aerial photography, and world maps over a secure Internet connection for users in schools to pan and zoom, as a teaching and learning resource.

• Ordnance Survey 1:10 000
• Ordnance Survey 1:50 000
• Ordnance Survey Internet Street Map
• Ordnance Survey Digital Elevation model
• 1:250 000 Whole UK & Ireland
• 2 metre resolution aerial photography
• 25cm aerial photography
• Historic maps (Epoch1 1880)
• World Atlas
• World Satellite
• World DEM

InfoMapper enables teachers and learners to create cross-curricular resources and to share them across the Internet with all other users.

InfoMapper contains a large (and increasing) number of cross-curricular digital learning resources created by teachers for teachers. These are copyright free and can be used as you wish within your lessons. Information is provided about linking QCA activities from each curriculum area.

Is suitable for use in both primary and secondary phases.

WebBased Ltd

South West Technology Centre

17 Research way
Derriford Road
PLYMOUTH
PL6 8BT
Phone: 01752 791021
Email: infomapper@webbased.co.uk   Website: www.infomapper.com

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