1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster is the digital alternative to Ordnance Survey's OS Landranger paper map series for Great Britain available in 20km square tiles.
Retina resolution
We give you 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster at a resolution of 254 dpi – and OS Partners at a staggering 660 dpi – so it looks stunning on today’s high-resolution displays, whether on desktop, tablet or mobile.
Clearly see places of interest
Tourist and heritage attractions of many types are shown on this mapping, so leisure app users can use it to find their way by road, footpath or cycle route to a place of interest, whether it’s a sports centre or a nature reserve.
Ideal for desktop publishing
When you need map extracts for a consultation document or a published magazine, you can open 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster TIFF files in software like Photoshop and InDesign.
Enables a faster response to critical situations by Emergency Services
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster helps emergency control centre staff respond more effectively to calls. Using clearly shown landmarks, they can ask distressed callers if they can see the local pub or church, to pinpoint incident locations quickly.
Helps local planners identify sites
This map helps you spot brownfield sites ripe for development, and analyse the quality of local transport links. Railways and important roads are clearly colour-coded.
Allows easy identification of places of interest for tourists
Tourist and heritage attractions of many types are shown on this mapping, so leisure app users can use it to find their way by road, footpath or cycle route to a place of interest, whether it’s a sports centre or a nature reserve.
Helpful mapping tool for walkers and cyclists
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster is a must-have map in any navigation app or device for walkers and cyclists. It depicts the landscape with superb detail and clarity.
Additional uses
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster product can also aid with:
Route planning
Geographic context
Enhancing data presentation
Access: Download
Data theme: Contextual
Data structure: Raster
Coverage: Great Britain
Scale: 1:50 000
Format: GeoTIFF, TIFF-LZW, TIFF-Uncompressed
Tile count: 820 (582 sea tiles)
Ordering area: Customisable Area (20km² tiles)
Publication months: March, June, September, December
Defining your own areas
You can order 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster by user-defined areas:
Specific tile identities
Administrative region
Bounding box
It's also available covering:
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Wales
Tiles are, however, supplied whole rather than being clipped to fit geographic areas.
Colour options
Palette of 256 colours
Converting to a monochrome image
Some software packages have a facility whereby you can load the colour image onto a computer and, using one of the command drop-down menus, select the greyscale option. This will change the colours on an image to shades of grey (greyscale). This is not the same output as monochrome where features in the file are either black or white.
How to get this product
Access to this product is free for PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) Members. You can check if your organisation is a member of the PSGA on the OS website.
The 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster product page on the OS website has advice on how to get the product for developers, businesses, OS Partners and PSGA Members (i.e. government and the public sector).
Sample data
Download 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster sample data
You can download sample data for the product for free from the OS Data Hub. The sample data are available in GeoTIFF format and cover three areas (Exeter, Newport and Inverness).
Visualise 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster data online
This product is available to try out free online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:
What's next?
To access additional documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:
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