MiniScale
MiniScale is a free small-scale digital map of Great Britain in a single data file that clearly shows towns and cities, motorways, major roads, railways and airports. MiniScale is aimed at any customer who requires a high-quality, visually appealing map for their documents and / or publications, whether that be a magazine, brochure or website.
MiniScale is a vector graphic that has been created using desktop publishing software so that it can be customised and converted into a wide variety of graphic formats. Alternatively, the raster examples can also be used for web applications or within a geographical information system (GIS) as a backdrop.
See the big picture
MiniScale is ideal as a fast-loading national map of Great Britain for your GIS. It's accurate, quality-assured and easy on the eye.
Ideal for desktop publishing
MiniScale maps are great for desktop publishing. You can print them as wall maps or use extracts in sales brochures or project documents.
Flexible for GIS users and graphic designers
Choose the map that’s right for you. MiniScale downloads include files for both GIS users and graphic designers. We provide a map highlighting roads and cities, and another with terrain to the fore.
MiniScale can be used to:
Create high-quality, visually appealing location maps for websites or promotional material, for example, showing the locations of head offices or the distribution of assets across Great Britain.
Produce overview or entry screen maps within an Intranet or Internet web mapping service.
Facilitate high-level route planning along major roads and railways.
Create a basemap for web applications or within a geographical information system (GIS) for interactive web maps or mobile apps.
Access: Download
Data theme: Contextual
Data structure: Raster
Coverage: Great Britain
Scale: 1:1 000 000
Format: TIFF-LZW
Ordering area: All of Great Britain
Publication month: January
Colour and options
Palette of 256 colours in the TIFF version of this product.
Customisation options
You can turn off layers in the .ai files, which open in Adobe Illustrator (open source alternatives are available), then export files in other formats for use in your GIS or printed documents.
Image editing
You can open MiniScale files in Photoshop or similar image editing programmes in order to use extracts for location maps and other purposes.
How to get this product
Access to this OS OpenData product is free through the OS Data Hub.
What's next?
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