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Maps and Imagery Fundamentals

The products within the Maps and Imagery Portfolio comprise raster and vector digital maps designed to make OS data easier to access, customise and use for creating web, mobile and desktop applications.

The following pages provide details covering the Maps and Imagery Portfolio of products:

Maps and Imagery Products Overview

The overview contains product information relating to the Maps and Imagery products, including available formats, metadata, data compression details, etc.

Maps and Imagery Products Technical Specification

The technical specification provides detailed technical information relating to the Maps and Imagery products.

Maps and Imagery Downloads

The downloads page provides links to download georeferencing files, map legends, tile lists, and XML schemas for the Maps and Imagery products.

Maps and Imagery product portfolio

The Maps and Imagery Portfolio includes eleven products:

Example image showing 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster product data over a background map.

1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster

The 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster data product mirrors the OS Explorer Map series of products. At this scale, users can get a detailed overview of environmental and leisure features across Great Britain.

Example image showing 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster product data over a background map.

1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster

The 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster data product mirrors the OS Landranger Map series of products. As a mid-scale data product, it is well-suited to navigation applications, contextualising location-based data, or as a map in its own right.

Example image showing 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster product data over a background map.

1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster

The 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster data product is a small-scale digital raster mapping product that provides a regional view of Great Britain similar in content and appearance to a traditional road atlas. An OpenData product.

Example image showing GB Overview Maps product data over a map of Great Britain.

GB Overview Maps

Two overview maps of Great Britain at 1:5 000 000 scale for commercial, personal or educational use. An OpenData product.

Example image showing MiniScale product data over a background map of the north of Scotland.

MiniScale

A small-scale digital map of Great Britain designed for customers requiring high-quality mapping for documents and publications. An OpenData product.

Example image showing OS MasterMap Imagery Layer product data over a background map.

OS MasterMap Imagery Layer

Provides digital aerial photography of Great Britain that has been colour-balanced and corrected for geometric distortions.

Example image showing OS MasterMap Topography Layer product data over a background map.

OS MasterMap Topography Layer

A detailed and accurate view of the landscape of Great Britain, representing both the manmade and natural environment, with over 500 million real-world objects.

Example image showing OS Open Zoomstack product data over a background map of an urban area.

OS Open Zoomstack

An open vector basemap showing coverage of Great Britain from a national level, down to street level detail. An OpenData product.

Example image showing OS OpenMap – Local product data over a background map.

OS OpenMap – Local

A dataset of detailed, street-level mapping of Great Britain, providing one of the most detailed generalised open mapping products available. An OpenData product.

Example image showing OS VectorMap District product data over a background map.

OS VectorMap District

A open simple vector dataset, designed for creating graphical mapping with a nominal scale of 1:25 000 covering the whole of Great Britain. An OpenData product.

Example image showing OS VectorMap Local product data over a background map.

OS VectorMap Local

A highly detailed, customisable, street-level map, showing fences, building outlines, paths and street names.

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