Provides high-resolution imagery, ensuring a clear depiction of landscape features relevant to its scale.
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster is a small-scale, digital, raster mapping product giving a regional view, similar in content and appearance to a typical road atlas.
This product is updated annually
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What 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster provides you with
A regional backdrop map, containing motorways, main roads and country lanes.
Clearly identify places of interest, including camping and caravan sites.
Free to view, download and use for commercial, education and personal purposes.
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster
Technical information
Specifications
- Use cases
1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster product can aid with:
- route planning;
- geographic context; and
- enhancing an Intranet or Internet site.
Encourage tourism in your area
With lots of tourist attractions featured, it’s a great map for your website to help visitors plan days out.
Enhance a leaflet or sales brochure with a map of your local area
You can open the files in image editing software and cut out the area you need.
- Access
- Download
- Data theme
- Contextual
- Data structure
- Raster
- Coverage
- Great Britain
- Scale
- 1:250 000
- Format
- TIFF
- Ordering area
- All of Great Britain
- Publication months
- June
- OS Data Hub plan
- OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
- Public Sector Plan
- Premium Plan
Documents and Support
Technical documentation
- 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster technical documentationVisit docs.os.uk to access all technical documentation for this product, including getting started guide, technical specification, map symbols legend, and georeferencing files.
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster
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What you get
- Key features
- Category
- Contextual or derived mapping
- Access
- Download
- Data structure
- Raster
- Update frequency
- Annually
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