This overview introduces 1:250 000 Scale Colour raster, giving context for all users – highlighting key features, providing examples of uses, and listing details such as coverage, resolution, etc.
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The 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster product is a small-scale, digital, raster mapping product that gives a regional view similar in content and appearance to a typical road atlas. It clearly shows the landscape features relevant to its scale, including cities, towns, many villages, motorways, A and B roads, railways, rivers, and some woodlands across Great Britain. You can use 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster to overlay your own geographic or business data, or use it as a standalone map.
The 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster product:
Is an ideal regional overview or backdrop map.
Has classic road atlas styling:
Motorways and main roads stand out, but you can also see country lanes clearly.
Places of interest, including camping and caravan sites, are clearly shown.
Road and junction numbers, junction-to-junction mileage, and primary routing are included.
Is compatible with other open datasets available from data.gov.uk and many other sources.
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster combines cities, towns, motorways, A and B class roads, railways, rivers, and other key features. This makes it the ideal geographic context on which to overlay your own business data or to use in your applications.
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster can be used for:
Route planning
Geographic context
Webpage enhancement
The compressed download file includes (among others):
56 edged-matched individual 100km by 100km tiles aligned to the National Grid
Product legend in TIFF and PDF format
1:250 000 scale gazetteer
Ordnance Survey divides Great Britain into squares of 100km by 100km. Each square has a unique two-letter reference, for example, TG in the grid below. 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster tiles are identified by the National Grid reference of the south-west corner of the 100km² area they cover.
An introductory guide to the British National Grid (BNG) is available on the OS website.
This overview includes the following sections:
