1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster

About the product

1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster is Ordnance Survey’s definitive raster product, providing a complete digital view of the popular Landranger^® paper map series. It comprises 815 tiles, each 20 km by 20 km, and offers clear detail on roads, footpaths, woods, water features, important buildings and height contours. All topographic features are joined across sheet edges, providing seamless coverage of the entire country.

It provides a comprehensive map base ideal for detailed work where street names are not required, such as demographic analysis.

Features and benefits

• Shows all roads and buildings as blocks of colour to allow easy identification of land features.
• Its clarity is particularly suited to development, environmental analysis and land use planning.
• Directly derived from Ordnance Survey Landranger production database, resulting in high quality image and resolution.
• Consistent with Landranger accuracy. All topographic features are edge-matched.
• Available in a range of raster data formats.
• Compatible with other Ordnance Survey data products.

Suggested applications

• Development and land use planning.
• Environmental impact analysis.
• Vehicle routing.
• Asset management.
• Marketing analysis

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