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.

  • Contextual or derived mapping
  • Download
  • Public Sector Plan
  • Premium Plan
  • Energy & Infrastructure Plan

This product is updated quarterly

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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

Give it a try

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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Read product guides, technical specification and further documents and support.

1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster

Technical information

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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
  • Energy & Infrastructure Plan

Documents and Support

Getting started guides

  • 1 50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Overview
    The overview introduces the product and gives context for all users. It highlights key features, provides examples of potential uses for the product and lists details like file sizes, supply formats, etc.
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    December 15, 2021

Technical specification

Supporting documents

Additional information

Defining your own areas

You can order 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster by user-defined areas:

  • Specific tile identities
  • Administrative region
  • Bounding box

It's also available covering:

  • Great Britain
  • England
  • Scotland
  • Wales

Tiles are, however, supplied whole rather than being clipped to fit geographic areas.

Colour options

Palette of 256 colours

Converting to a monochrome image

Some software packages have a facility whereby you can load the colour image onto a computer and, using one of the command drop-down menus, select the greyscale option. This will change the colours on an image to shades of grey (greyscale). This is not the same output as monochrome where features in the file are either black or white.

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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

Give it a try

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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