List of Layers

The table below provides the list of layers and a brief description for each one.

Layer	Description
Airports	A centre point for all major airports including a name.
Boundaries	National boundary lines between England - Scotland and England - Wales.
Building	Generalised building footprints at both local and district resolutions. The local buildings have a unique identifier which can be used to style features distinctly. The identifier will not be persistent between product versions and therefore there will be no change history information for a feature.
Contours	These contours lines have a 10-metre interval with an index every 50 metres. Each contour contains a value.
ETL	Electricity Transmission Lines.
Foreshore	These polygons depict the part of the shore or beach which lies between the Mean Low Water Mark and Mean High Water Mark.
Greenspace	Polygon features representing the extent of places such as parks and sports facilities that are likely to be accessible to the public.
Land	This layer depicts the shape of Great Britain. (GeoPackage only)
Names	Use this point layer to render contextual labels on your map.
National Parks	Theses polygons depict the extent of the 15 National Parks in Great Britain.
Railway Stations	This layer contains a point for all stations and includes a name.
Rail	Lines representing the railway network. They are broken where they pass under bridges, buildings or other obstructing detail.
Roads	Lines representing the road network. A road is defined as a metalled way for vehicles.
Sea	This layer depicts the sea around Great Britain. (Vector Tiles only)
Sites	Polygon features that represent the area or extent of certain types of function or activity.
Surface Water	These polygons represent inland water bodies that are sufficiently wide enough to be captured as an area.
Urban Areas	These are generalised polygons representing built-up areas for use at smaller scales.
Waterlines	Lines representing rivers, canals, drains and other linear bodies of water.
Woodland	The polygons represent areas of trees: coniferous, non-coniferous and mixed.