List of Layers

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.