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On 1 June 2007, Ordnance Survey wrote to all its current Land-Line customers and also Licensed Partners that use Land-Line in their own value-add products; to give them official notice of the intention to withdraw the Land-Line family of products (Land-Line and Land-Line.Plus) on 30 September 2008. Land-Line is no longer available to buy from Ordnance Survey.
When OS MasterMap Topography Layer was launched in 2001, Ordnance Survey announced at that time, that this was the intended replacement product for Land-Line and therefore at some point in the future, the Land-Line product would be withdrawn. To test the market’s readiness for withdrawal of Land-Line, Ordnance Survey conducted a formal public consultation into withdrawal in 2005. The results of that consultation concluded at that time that over three-quarters of all our Land-Line customers would be ready in 2008 for the withdrawal of the product. Over the past two year period, ongoing discussion with customers has continued to validate the conclusions of the consultation, as we have seen more and more of our Land-Line customers make the migration to the superior OS MasterMap Topography Layer product. Therefore, now is the appropriate time, from the perspective of Ordnance Survey and from that of the majority of our customers to make our official announcement of the product withdrawal and to provide our customers and partners with 16 months notice of our intention to withdraw Land-Line on 30 September 2008.
To find out more information about what Land-Line withdrawal means to you, click on the relevant link below:
I am a current Land-Line customer
I am not currently a Land-Line customer
I am a Partner that uses Land-Line in one of my products
Ordnance Survey’s team of account managers is available to help you through the withdrawal process and respond to your requirements, while the Pre and Post Sales Support team is available to provide technical support for adoption of OS MasterMap Topography Layer.
If you do not have an account manager or if you have not already done so, we encourage you to contact us via our Customer Service Centre on T 08456 05 05 05or email customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk to discuss how Ordnance Survey can help.
We have also put together a set of Frequently Asked Questions that we hope will provide you with quick access to information about specific questions that you might have about what Land-Line withdrawal means to you.
Changes to Administrative and Electoral Boundaries
Following customer research including a public consultation exercise in the Spring of 2005, the administrative and electoral boundary names and other distinctive names - known as marginal text that currently exists outside the data area of the standard sheet/tile templates for Land-Line and Superplan® (e.g. 1:1250 quarter km, 1:2500 km sheet) have been removed.
The removal of this information will not affect the output, positioning and presentation of the administrative and electoral boundary lines themselves on the face of the map. There will also be no affect on the existing situation where administrative or electoral names are wholly contained within a standard sheet. For the majority of users who work in a 'seamless' mapping template (i.e. not set to national grid kilometre or quarter kilometre lines) then no changes will be evident.
For customers requiring comprehensive currently operative administrative and electoral boundary information, Ordnance Survey's Boundary-LineTM is our recommended data product.
For paper map information, the relevant Administrative Area Maps representing specific classes of boundaries are available. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/adminboundary/
Results of the public consultation exercise.
For further information regarding this notice, please contact our Customer Service Centre on 023 8030 5030.
About the Product
Land-Line is a comprehensive dataset, depicting man-made and natural features ranging from houses, factories, roads and rivers to marshland and administrative boundaries. There are almost 229,000 Land-Line tiles covering Great Britain, surveyed and digitised at three different scales according to location:
- 1:1250 scale in urban areas;
- 1:2500 scale in rural areas; and
- 1:10,000 scale for remote areas such as mountains and moorland.
Land-Line represents the built environment in clear and concise detail using 37 feature codes in NTF and 43 layers in DXF™.
Land-Line.Plus® provides the complete real-world picture offering an additional 26 feature codes or layers, including landscape features such as slopes, cliffs, woodland and vegetation information.
With the use of appropriate software, products in the Land-Line family can be displayed on screen, merged with other graphical data, manipulated and plotted onto paper or film. They can be displayed or plotted at a range of scales; and individual feature codes or layers may be distinctively styled or omitted to customise screen views and plots. All Land-Line and Land-Line.Plus tiles are edgematched for improved presentation and seamless work across tile edges.
View the product interactively
Take a look at how Land-Line data might appear in a GIS by launching our Product Viewer.
Suggested applications
- Add functionality to facilities management systems.
- Large scale asset management projects.
- Research.
- Planning and coordinating large events.
Features and benefits
- The definitive large-scale dataset surveyed to a high degree of accuracy and covering the whole of Great Britain.
- Choice of products – Land-Line or Land-Line.Plus.
- Vector data format with full feature coding.
- Choice of supply options and data formats (NTF and DXF™ AutoCAD® release 12 compatible).
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