1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster Overview

This overview introduces 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster and gives context for all users – highlighting key features, giving potential uses, and listing details such as coverage, currency, etc.

The 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster data product mirrors the popular OS Explorer Map series, showing a detailed overview of environmental and leisure features across Great Britain. It can provide the ideal mapping backdrop upon which to overlay business information. The 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster’s backdrop can then be overlaid with other Ordnance Survey vector products or a customer’s own geographic / business data; it can also provide a useful background map in its own right.

Screen images can be plotted to produce a high-quality map. An example of the data is shown below:

An example extract of 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster which is focussed over St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England.

Product applications

1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is aimed at professional / business markets and its graphic specification can aid with the following:

• Environmental applications

• Leisure applications

• Construction

• Engineering

• Planning and licence applications

• Farm / estate / property management

• Real estate

Index

This overview includes the following sections:

• Product details

• Features depicted in the product

• Georeferencing