Technical Requirements for Desktop Mapping

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Use Geographical Information Systems to manage your assets, projects or business.

Desktop Mapping allows direct access to our core large-scale Ordnance Survey map data products (1:1250/1:2500/1:10k Landplan).

Stanfords GeoStore offers separate access to complimentary products such as Aerial photography data, 1m and 5m Height data and Ordnance Survey mid/small scale mapping (1:10k/1:25k/1:50k/1:250k).

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Technical Requirements for DTM

IT Spec sheet

Download the IT spec sheet for PC and MAC (130 KB)

Proxy server workaround

This is only required by those customers unable to log-in in the usual manner.

Download the proxy server workaround (187 KB)

Java Plug-in (PC)

If you do not already have Java you will need to download a Java Plug-in.

Go to this address: http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0/
and download the JRE version.
Accept Sun's Terms and Conditions.
Save and install the Multilanguage Offline version (14.5Mb)

Java Plug-in (MAC)

You will need to make sure that Java JRE version 1.4.2_04 or later has been installed (usually installed and kept up-to-date automatically as part of the Macintosh system)

If the mapping is slow to load or if it becomes necessary to continuously refresh in order to view you will need to add some parameters into the java plug in control panel. The version of parameters required is determined by the amount of Physical Memory on your machine:

Download the parameters table (3.0 MB)
Download screenshot showing where to copy the parameters to (39 KB)
Download screenshot showing how to set the memory cache (34 KB)

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To find out more about any of our products and services either consult our
Product Guide or contact us on 0845 880 3730.

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