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MiniScale®

About the product

Ordnance Survey’s MiniScale is a small-scale product, nominally at 1:1 million scale, designed for use within desktop graphic applications to provide simple backdrop mapping covering the whole of Great Britain. MiniScale is created using desktop graphic software so it can be customised and converted into any graphic format, without the need for a complex geographical information system (GIS). MiniScale is aimed at professional/business markets, its graphic specification can provide assistance with:

•  Producing simple, good quality mapping, ideal for use in magazines and brochures.

•  Simplifying the creation of Web images for use on an Intranet or Internet site.

MiniScale is supplied on one CD-ROM as a single data file in a variety of industry standard formats, including in the latest release Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe® Illustrator® 10. The data is held in layers with styled objects for easy customisation of map images. These can be easily converted to web images using appropriate software (not supplied).

View examples of Miniscale

Take a look at some examples of how Miniscale can be adapted for specific uses.

Miniscale in use

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Features and benefits

  • No copyright fee when re drawn at 1:1 000 000 scale or smaller .
  • Can be used as a backdrop map within GIS applications.
  • Downloadable georeferencing files for GIS users from our web site.
  • The FreeHand file contains an extra layer of Welsh names which can be used to replace the English ones.
  • Release 7 (2005) includes Shaded Relief PSD files

Suggested application

  • Hardcopy and web based publications requiring simple and uncluttered mapping.
  • Designed for desktop graphic applications without the need for more complex GIS.
  • Clean, simple and uncluttered mapping, ideal for magazine and brochure illustrations.
  • The mapping is ready for customisation and conversion into any graphic format, in particular creating web images.

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