Familiar to many as the OS Landranger series of paper maps, OS 1:50,000 raster data is also useful for providing context across a wide area and using as a backdrop within GIS or CAD. The maps detail roads, public rights of way, woods, water features, important buildings and contour lines at 10m intervals, and can be ordered in a range of raster formats as well as the standard 20x20km TIFF tiles.

The pixel resolution of 1:50,000 data is 5m, and printing at 254dpi will print to the correct scale.

Licence: PDF

OS 1:50 000 Legend

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Update Cycle

Bi-annual

Coverage

GB plus Isle of Man

Scale

1:50,000

Formats Available

TIFF, BMP, JPG, PNG

Licence Options

Annual

Delivery Timescale

Within minutes

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OS 1:25 000 Raster

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It offers detailed modelling of significant features such as road, rail, quarries and lakes​ allowing you to asses the lie of the land on-screen and reduce the need for site visits. OS Terrain 5 has a root mean square error (RMSE) value of 1.5 metres in urban areas and major communication routes. 

OS Terrain 5 is maintained as part of the same revision process as the Ordnance Survey's large scale datasets and so adds a valuable third dimension to OS MasterMap Topography Layer.

Licence: PDF

OS Terrain 5 is ideal for:

OS Terrain 5 is particularly valuable for large scale development projects, planning, impact assessment

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Update Cycle

6 weekly

Coverage

GB

Scale

5m resolution

Formats Available

ASC, XYZ, TXT, DXF

Licence Options

Annual

Delivery Timescale

Within minutes

Related Products

Aerial Photography, OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS VectorMap Local

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The Ordnance Survey's well-known Explorer series of mapping, familiar to walkers and outdoor enthusiasts. Ideal for analysing the environment across a district and in a rural areas, 1:25,000 raster data includes field boundaries, administrative boundaries, Rights of Way including access land, National Trust land, MOD land, selected cycle routes, national trails and points of interest for tourism. Contour lines are shown at 5m intervals (or 10m in some mountainous areas).

The maps can be ordered in a range of raster formats as well as the standard 10x10km TIFF tiles.

The pixel resolution of 1:25,000 data is 2.5m, and printing at 254dpi will print to the correct scale.

Licence: PDF

OS 1:25 000 Legend

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Update Cycle

Bi-annual

Coverage

GB

Scale

1:25,000

Formats Available

TIFF, BMP, JPG, PNG

Licence Options

Annual

Delivery Timescale

Within minutes

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OS VectorMap District Raster, OS VectorMap Local, OS VectorMap Local Raster

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OS VectorMap Local is a vector mapping dataset designed to provide contextual mapping outputs. Generated from large-scale source data OS VectorMap Local is ideally suited for applications where 1:10,000 raster backdrop mapping would have previously been used. 

VectorMap Local offers the user the flexibility to turn on and off layers of mapping and to style the data as required, allowing the user to create custom maps highlighting their features of interest.​ Purchasable as a user defined area and deliverable in a range of GIS and CAD formats VectorMap Local is viewable and printable at a variety of scales. The product contains the following features:

• buildings, structures and leisure areas

• roads, paths and tracks

• vegetation and surface features

• water features and associated detail

• railways and associated detail

• spot height

• archaeological and antiquity information

• text

• miscellaneous information – remote areas, foot bridges, house names and all buildings.

Licence: PDF

OS VectorMap Local Legend

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Update Cycle

Quarterly

Coverage

GB

Scale

1:10,000

Formats Available

SHP, TAB, GML, DWG

Licence Options

Annual

Delivery Timescale

Within minutes

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OS MasterMap Topography Layer

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OS VectorMap Local Raster replaces OS 1:10,000 colour raster and is designed for providing contextual mapping output, generated from large-scale source information. It is available as both colour and black and white in a range of raster formats.

The product contains the following features:

• buildings, structures and leisure areas
• roads, paths and tracks
• vegetation and surface features
• water features and associated detail
• railways and associated detail
• spot height
• archaeological and antiquity information
• text
• miscellaneous information – remote areas, foot bridges, house names and all buildings

Also available as a non-georeferenced image.

Licence: PDF

OS VectorMap Local Raster Legend

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Update Cycle

Quarterly

Coverage

GB

Scale

1:10,000

Formats Available

PNG, TIFF, JPG, BMP

Licence Options

Annual

Delivery Timescale

Within minutes

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OS MasterMap Topography Layer

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OS MasterMap is the most detailed, current and comprehensive map dataset of Great Britain, enabling you to make better decisions and manage your assets more effectively. Working with the other mapping layers in the suite, OS MasterMap Topography Layer gives you the visual context to help interpret addresses, routes and imagery. OS MasterMap is the approved dataset for planning applications and land registration.

Continually updated, OS MasterMap contains 450 million geographic features found in the real world, from detailed building and road outlines to water features, pathways, bus shelters and letter boxes.

OS MasterMap is ideal for:

• Use in CAD or GIS
• Planning
• Site location and evaluation
• Risk management
• Transport and infrastructure
• Asset management
• Environmental analysis

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Update Cycle

6 weekly

Coverage

GB

Scale

1:1250

Formats Available

DWG, SHP, GML, TAB, DXF, GDB, KML, TIFF

Stated Accuracy

Urban +/- 1m

Stated Accuracy

Rural +/- 8m

Stated Accuracy

+/- 8m

Licence Options

12, 24 or 36 months

Delivery Timescale

Within minutes

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PDF Plans, Aerial Photography
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OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus

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The aerial images give added context to features which exist within other (vector) OS MasterMap layers and allow interpretation of other features not identified within the vector datasets. The data is rigorously checked for quality to maintain a consistent standard of both positional accuracy and image quality.

Additionally Ordnance Survey processing software produces true-orthorectified imagery, removing building lean from aerial imagery to give you a consistent top-down view.

Aerial imagery is ideal for checking road markings, tree canopies or site entrances, cutting down the need for site visits, so you can save money and manage time more efficiently.​

Purchasable as both a traditional raster cut-out of a user defined area or as web services.

OS MasterMap Imagery layer is ideal for:

• Planning
• Site location and evaluation
• Land use classification and analysis
• Transport and infrastructure
• Asset management
• Environmental analysis
• Flood mapping
• 3D visualisation

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Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Update Cycle

Quarterly

Coverage

GB

Scale

25cm resolution

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PDF Plans, Aerial Photography

Complementary Data

OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus​

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OS Mastermap Highways Network is the Ordnance Survey's latest and most comprehensive dataset of Great Britain's road network and is the next generation of the well-known product OS ITN. It is comprised of a suite of products that brings together the best information from authoritative sources in to one central location.

In addition to road centre lines and classifications, Highways features richer content that is better structured to allow for analysis as well as visualisation. Highways has been designed with traffic analysis, asset management, planning and the emergency services in mind, allowing users to plan for tomorrow. It gives you accurate and precise asset management information on who maintains the road network and the type of surface reinstatement values. And it's a valuable reporting tool, for key facts and statistics about the road, against a consistent and authoritative base.

OS Highways - Roads can be extended using OS Highways - Routing, and OS Highways - Paths

OS Highways - Roads attribution includes:

• road classification, naming and numbering
• vehicle restrictions
• links to OS Addressbase and the USRN
• roads under construction
• public/private maintained roads
• special engineering difficulty
• special event information
• road hazards: overhead structures, level crossings, movable bollards, gates
• protected streets
• traffic sensitive roads

OS Highways - Routing additionally includes:

• turn restrictions

OS Highways - Paths additionally includes:

• links between roads/paths

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Coverage

GB

Scale

1:1250

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PDF Plans, Aerial Photography
Complementary Data
OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus

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​The new Address products have been produced by GeoPlace, a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Group.

The AddressBase™ Premium product includes the best parts of local government’s National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), Ordnance Survey’s OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 and the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF), plus comprehensive address classification details.

AddressBase™ Premium is the most comprehensive product in the range and is an entirely new concept in the world of addressing for GB (England and Wales currently - Scotland coming in 2012). AddressBase™ Premium is a relational database detailing the whole lifecycle of an address from pre-build through completion and successive name changes of businesses. Suitable for use in interrogating for bespoke services, emapsite can provide access to this valuable dataset through our web services delivery solutions. Please call us for more details​.

Technical Details

Supplier

Ordnance Survey

Coverage

GB

Stated Accuracy

Sub-metre

Related Products

PDF Plans, Aerial Photography
Complementary Data
OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus

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