Features depicted in the product

The following features are depicted in 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster:

Man-made structures

Buildings are generalised and shown with colour tint and cartographically placed text to indicate settlement name and extent.

Structures are indicated by lines, buildings or symbols and are supplemented with a text description for all distinctive named features. Important buildings are displayed independently from other generic building features.

Transport

Transport features depicted include tracks, public rights of way, cycle networks, paths, roads, railway lines (single and multiple track), railway stations, airports and airstrips, ferry routes and ports, cycle routes, and bus and coach stations.

Natural landscape features

Different types of natural features and vegetation are shown by symbols or colour tint, including woods, rock, scree, boulders, sand, shingle, mud and slope. There is also information relating to the extents of Forestry Commission access land and National Trust land.

Water features

Water features are shown in blue with associated text. A distinction is made between natural (blue) and man-made (black) water features, with the exception of canals (which are shown in blue).

Height

Ground contours, survey heights and air survey heights are depicted.

Surface heights are to the nearest metre above mean sea level. Heights shown close to a triangulation pillar refer to the ground level height at the pillar and not necessarily to the height at the summit.

Heritage and archaeological sites

Depiction includes information supplied by English Heritage®, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Administrative boundaries

National, county, district, unitary authority, civil parish and constituency boundaries are all depicted.

Annotation

Descriptive and distinctive names are depicted as text:

• Tourist Information Centres

• Camping / caravan sites

• Gardens

• Golf courses

• Nature reserves

• Car parks

• Picnic sites

• Viewpoints

• Youth hostels