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This page details the features depicted in the 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster.
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 selected distinctive named features are supplemented with a text description.
Transport features depicted include tracks, paths, roads, railway lines (single and multiple track), railway stations, airports and airstrips, ferry routes and ports, cycle routes, and bus and coach stations.
Water features are shown in blue with associated text. A distinction is made between natural (blue) and man-made (black) water features, except for canals (which are shown in blue).
Different types of natural features and vegetation are shown by symbols or colour tint, including woods, rock, scree, boulders, sand, shingle, mud and slope.
The following routes are depicted in this product:
Footpaths, including permissive
Bridleways, including permissive
Byways open to all traffic
Restricted byways
Other routes with public access (ORPA)
National Trails and Scottish Great Trails and Recreational Routes
Recreational routes
Rights of way (England and Wales only)
Access land
Portrayal of access land is intended as a guide to land that is normally available for access on foot, for example, access land created under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, and land managed by The National Trust™, Woodland Trust, National Parks and local authorities. Land owned by Forestry England is only shown as Open Access where coincident with CRoW land.
Ground contours, survey heights and air survey heights are depicted. 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 the height at the summit.
National, county, district, unitary authority and civil parish boundaries are all depicted in the product.
Selected tourist and leisure information is normally restricted to features providing public access or services. Tourist information is shown by a blue symbol using, where possible, nationally recognised symbols. Where appropriate, symbols also have black distinctive names, for example, country parks, major gardens and so on.
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.
Low and high water, man-made and natural landscape features are all depicted.
National Grid lines are shown at 1-km intervals.
Descriptive and distinctive names are depicted as text.
Georeferencing is not required when using the GeoTIFF file format as the tiles have already been embedded with georeferencing information.
To be able to view each TIFF tile in correct geographic relation to the National Grid and to other tiles, the tiles must be georeferenced. Geographic information systems (GIS) typically provide georeferencing as part of their functionality, but for each set of tiles, it is necessary to provide the information on how the tiles should be ordered.
Ordnance Survey provides this information in a set of georeferencing files, also known as world files. A complete set of georeferencing files for 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is available to download free of charge from the Georeferencing files and land and sea tiles page of the OS website.
There are several different types of world file. Prior to downloading one of the sets, customers are advised to check with their system suppliers to find out which type of world file their system supports.
The conventions behind the files’ creation can be found in the product's technical specification. By using the conventions outlined there, this means that other datasets using the same conventions can be imported into the same GIS to add value to the raster map; for example, overlaying a routing or logistics network over the map or displaying a customer’s demographic information.
The georeferencing files should be saved in the same directory as the files of the map tiles themselves.
The data volumes for each file format are influenced by the level of data compression.
When an image is compressed, duplicated data that has no value is removed or saved in a shorter form, reducing a file’s size. For example, if large areas of water are the same tone, only the value for one pixel needs to be saved, together with the locations of the other pixels with the same colour. When the image is edited or displayed, the compression process is reversed. When raster data is compressed, not only are the data volumes reduced, but the user can download, display, edit and transfer images more quickly.
There are two forms of compression: lossless and lossy:
Lossless compression: As its name suggests, lossless compression does not lose information within an image. Lossless compression retains the original quality of an image when it is uncompressed. This process does not provide much compression, so file sizes remain large. Lossless compression is used mainly where detail is important, such as when planning to make large prints.
Lossy compression: This process degrades images to some degree, meaning that the decompressed image is not quite the same as the original. The more an image is compressed, the more degraded it becomes. In many situations, such as posting images on the Internet or printing small- to medium-sized prints, the image degradation is not so obvious. If a lossy compressed image is over-enlarged, the degradation will become apparent, and therefore, 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is not supplied using this form of compression.
TIFF is one of the most used lossless image formats. TIFF is primarily designed for raster data interchange and is supported by numerous image-processing applications. This permits much more efficient access to exceptionally large files that have been compressed.
This document contains additional theoretical information related to 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster. All users will find the Product Information document useful and informative.
The 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster data product mirrors the popular OS Explorer Map series, showing a detailed overview of environmental and leisure features across Great Britain. It can provide the ideal mapping backdrop upon which to overlay business information. The 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster’s backdrop can then be overlaid with other Ordnance Survey vector products or a customer’s own geographic / business data; it can also provide a useful background map in its own right.
Screen images can be plotted to produce a high-quality map. An example of the data is shown below.
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is aimed at professional / business markets and its graphic specification can aid with the following:
Environmental applications
Leisure applications
Construction
Engineering
Planning and licence applications
Farm / estate / property management
Real estate
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is derived from the source data used to create its graphic counterpart, the OS Explorer Map series. Generalisation is used to emphasise, simplify, select and sometimes omit features to produce a cartographic representation of the landscape at a scale of 1:25 000.
The nominal scale of the product is 1:25 000, but the recommended minimum-to-maximum scale range is 1:8,000 to 1:25 000 scale.
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is available in National Grid coordinates, which are expressed in metres relative to an origin set to a point west of the Isles of Scilly. These coordinates can easily be spatially related to other surveys, drawings, datasets or Ordnance Survey products. A general introductory guide to the British National Grid (BNG) is available on the OS website.
Coverage is Great Britain only. 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is supplied in standard 10 km by 10 km tiles aligned to the National Grid.
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is updated via a revision programme. The revision programme mirrors that of the OS Explorer Map series, and is determined by assessing the following factors:
Known surveyed change
Change intelligence gathered from a range of sources
How long it's been since an area was last revised
Priority is given to prestige sites categorised as significant items of change, such as major road construction projects. Significant items of surveyed change relevant to the scale are captured during the revision programme.
Where a line feature ends by intersecting the tile edge, it is matched with its corresponding feature on the adjacent tile so that both features end on the same unique coordinate. The representation of detail across the tile edge will be of a cartographically acceptable standard when plotted or displayed at scale.
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is supplied to customers quarterly in March, June, September and December, incorporating any updates made by the revision programme.
ISO 19115 compliant UK GEMINI discovery level metadata is provided for the data and can be found on the .
The following list gives a detailed description of the metadata elements provided on the AGI website:
Title: The title of the product.
Abstract: The abstract gives a brief description of the product.
Currency: The currency takes the form of date of last update for the feature.
Lineage: The lineage metadata takes the form of product specification name and date of product specification.
Spatial extent: The spatial extent is supplied in the form of geographic identifiers (for example, England, Scotland and Wales) and in the form of geographic coordinates.
Spatial reference system: The spatial reference system for all products takes the form of a British National Grid system, namely OSGB36.
Data format: Data format takes the form of the name of the format or formats the product is supplied in.
Frequency of updates: Frequency of updates takes the form of a stated period of time.
Distributor’s contact details: Distributor contact details include postal address, phone number, email address and website.
Data originator: Given as the company having primary responsibility for the intellectual content of the data source; in all cases, this will be Ordnance Survey.
Other metadata available includes keywords, start date of data capture, access constraints, use constraints, level of spatial data, supply media and presentation detail
Completeness | Presence and absence of features against the specified data content* | Omission | Features representing objects that conform to the specified data content but are not present in the data |
Commission | Features representing objects that do not conform to the specified data content but are present in the data |
Logical consistency | Degree of adherence to logical rules of data structure, attribution and relationships | Conceptual consistency | How closely the data follows the conceptual rules (or model) |
Domain consistency | How closely the data values in the dataset match the range of values in the dataset specification |
Format consistency | The physical structure (syntax): how closely the data stored and delivered fits the database schema and agreed supply formats |
Topological consistency | The explicit topological references between features (connectivity) – according to specification |
Positional accuracy | Accuracy of the position of features | Absolute accuracy | How closely the coordinates of a point in the dataset agree with the coordinates of the same point on the ground (in the British National Grid reference system) |
Relative accuracy | Positional consistency of a data point or feature in relation to other local data points or features within the same or another reference dataset |
Geometric fidelity | The ‘trueness’ of features to the shapes and alignments of the objects they represent* |
Temporal accuracy | Accuracy of temporal | Temporal consistency | How well-ordered events are recorded in the dataset (life cycles) |
attributes and temporal relationships of features | Temporal validity (currency) | Validity of data with respect to time: the amount of real-world change that has been incorporated in the dataset that is scheduled for capture under current specifications |
Thematic accuracy (attribute accuracy) | Classification of features and their attributes | Classification correctness | How accurately the attributes within the dataset record the information about objects* |
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is available in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) LZW, TIFF PackBits and Geographic TIFF (GeoTIFF) LZW compressed formats:
TIFF LZW (Lempel Ziv Welch) is a lossless compression (see the data compression page).
TIFF PackBits is a lossless compression scheme that is supported by virtually all applications that can import TIFF graphics.
GeoTIFF LZW is a TIFF file which has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within it. The geographic data can then be used to position the image in the correct location and with precise geometry on the screen of a geographic information display.
TIFF is a file-based format for storing and interchanging raster images, with the most recent version (6.0) published in 1992.
There are two types of architecture for a TIFF. Many mainframe computers use what is known as a big endian (Motorola®) architecture. Most modern computers, including personal computers (PCs), use the little-endian (Intel®) system. 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster TIFFs are supplied with Intel architecture.
Converting between these two systems is possible but, as a general rule, modern software should be expected to handle both of these outputs without operator intervention.
The 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster conforms to the TIFF 6.0 standard. Customers are recommended to contact their system suppliers to ensure that their computer can read the Intel / little-endian TIFF architecture.
The GeoTIFF LZW compressed format is supplied as an online download which is available from the
OS Data Hub. Other TIFF formats are also available from the OS Data Hub but as area of interest (AOI) downloads only (i.e. not as full supply).
The TIFF LZW and TIFF PackBits compressed formats are available for customers to request on DVD / HDD through OS Orders.
The product is updated quarterly. OS Partners can select a full supply option or a change-only update (COU) option. Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) customers are only able to select the COU option. If you select the COU option, then you will only receive tiles that have changed since the previous supply.