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Strategi
Strategi® is ideal to get a regional overview of the road network, railway lines, cities and wooded areas.
It will help you in your planning process or to carry out environmental analysis using the urban areas, woodland and rivers information.
Notice for January 2013 - specification and styling changes.
New for Autumn 2012 - now available to order in Mapinfo TAB format
Features and benefits
- FREE to view, download and use under OS OpenData™ terms.
- Includes a wide range of features (including railways, airports, ferries, water features, cities, towns and other settlements, woods and land use, and geographic names).
- Supplied with the 1:250 000 gazetteer (containing settlement names, admin areas and National Grid coordinates).
Suggested uses
- Environmental analysis
- Emergency planning
- Statistical analysis to enable social or environmental decision-making
Technical details
Format: DXF AutoCAD® (compatible release 12) , ESRI® Shapefile / E00 text or Mapinfo TAB
Data structure: Vector.
Attributes: Railways, airports, ferries, water features, cities, towns and other settlements, woods and land use and geographic names.
Scale: 1:250 000.
Update frequency: Annually – January (complete resupply).
Supply: Online download and DVD.
Coverage: Great Britain.
Useful links
User guide and technical specification
Styling guide - from Jan 2013
NEW Styled Layer Descriptor files
Specification and styling changes for January 2013- please scroll down for details.
Specification changes for January 2013-
- The majority of urban area polygons have been split into single named settlement areas to improve data consistency.
Urban Area polygons (5420 & 5422) will have a single named node of either -
Town (5413),
Village (5416),
Minor settlement (5448) or,
Landmark Attribute point (5419).
No changes will be applied to large named settlement areas, including London Metropolitan urban areas (5420) and Urban Area polygons (5420) with City nodes (5427). Settlement areas not included, are listed here.
- Removed admin_font_point seeds from islands in lakes as they had no purpose.
New style guide.
Styling for the Shapefile (ESRI®) format is available from January 2013. The style file and the styling userguide will be included with the January 2013 data.
The MapInfo TAB format styling has also been updated in the January 2013 release. A styling userguide is included with the data or can be downloaded from Useful Links above.