Digimap started as a project under the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme in 1996 offering Ordnance Survey maps to 6 trial universities: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Oxford and Reading.

[5] The Digimap service has eleven collections for higher and further education; Ordnance Survey, Historic, Geology, Marine, Environment, Aerial, LiDAR, Global, Society, Verisk, and agCensus.

[7] The scanned and georeferenced images of old Ordnance Survey maps were added as a new collection to Digimap in April 2005.

A separate download interface was also added which allows a greater number of maps to be taken in a single session.

At this time the most detailed historic Ordnance Survey maps, the Town Plans, were also offered through the service.

Digimap for Schools was launched by Baroness Joan Hanham CBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey at Graveney School in Wandsworth, London on Wednesday 10 November 2010.

[4] The service is very similar to Digimap Roam for Higher Education, allowing teachers and pupils to view the majority of Ordnance Survey's mapping products on-line, and print them out.

[20] One key difference between this Digimap Data collection and the others is that it is not Jisc funded and subscriptions are directly with EDINA.

[7][25] In 2010 the EDINA Geoservices Team received a "Highly Commended" in the Innovation & Best Practice (Charitable Status) Award from the AGI, for its implementation of its new technical infrastructure.

[6] The Digimap service is OGC standards compliant and EDINA is an active member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, hosting a meeting in June 2006.