1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
The digital alternative to our popular OS Landranger paper map series, this is a high-quality map of Great Britain, available in 20km square tiles.
This product is updated quarterly
What 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster provides you with
Used for emergency services
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster helps emergency control centre staff respond more effectively to calls. Using clearly shown landmarks, they can ask distressed callers if they can see the local pub or church, to pinpoint incident locations quickly.
Retina resolution
We give you 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster at a resolution of 254 dpi – and Partners at a staggering 660 dpi – so it looks stunning on today’s high-resolution displays, whether on desktop, tablet or mobile.
Plenty of places to visit
Tourist and heritage attractions of many types are shown on this mapping, so leisure app users can use it to find their way by road, footpath or cycle route to a place of interest, whether it’s a sports centre or a nature reserve.
Ideal for desktop publishing
When you need map extracts for a consultation document or a published magazine, you can open 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster TIFF files in software like Photoshop and InDesign.
Try this product with free sample data
Download a small area of 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
Or try out the real thing by applying for a Data Exploration Licence
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
Technical information
Specifications
- Use cases
For local planners, this map helps you spot brownfield sites ripe for development, and analyse the quality of local transport links. Railways and important roads are clearly colour-coded.
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster is a must-have map in any navigation app or device for walkers and cyclists. It depicts the landscape with superb detail and clarity.
- Access
- Download
- Data theme
- Contextual
- Data structure
- Raster
- Coverage
- Great Britain
- Scale
- 1:50 000
- Format
- GeoTIFF
- TIFF 8-bit LZW compressed
- TIFF Palette 8-bit (256 colours) uncompressed
- Windows® BMP uncompressed
- Ordering area
- Customisable Area (20km2 tiles)
- Publication months
- March
- June
- September
- December
- OS Data Hub plan
- Public Sector Plan
- Premium Plan
Documents and Support
Technical documentation
- 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster technical documentationVisit docs.os.uk to access all technical documentation for this product, including getting started guide, technical specification, full tile list, and georeferencing files.
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
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What you get
- Key features
- Used for emergency services
- Retina resolution
- Plenty of places to visit
- Ideal for desktop publishing
- Category
- Contextual or derived mapping
- Access
- Download
- Data structure
- Raster
- Update frequency
- Quarterly
Try this product with free sample data
Download a small area of 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
Or try out the real thing by applying for a Data Exploration Licence
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