Introducing: "Put Me On the Map!"

The game consists of a wide variety of activities, tasks and mini games around the Digimap for Schools service (EDINA 2010a) connected by the game's name and theme, “Put Me On the Map!”.

The DfS service includes eleven layers of mapping data with related map keys and, as the progression through map levels follows increasing levels of map details, these provide a structure for levels of increasing complexity (an indicative image is shown below or DfS can be viewed at the private trial site (EDINA 2010b)). The principle of each level will be the same: a map will be presented without any features and, on completion of each task a new set of features is revealed on the map. This allows each player to gain knowledge and confidence in the DfS service whilst also emphasising the richness and teaching potential of the mapping data within the service.