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Choose the right digital data product for your needs by answering a few simple questions.

What level of detail do you need?

 

What type of large scale data do you need?

  • Land and height data
  • Backdrop mapping
  • Roads and logistics data
  • Address and location data

    • Large scale land and height data

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    OS MasterMap Topography Layer Land-Form PROFILE Plus
    A highly detailed view of Great Britain's landscape
    including individual buildings, roads and areas of land. In total, it contains in excess of 400 million individual features.    		 a continuous model of the ground surface, with all the surface features such as trees, buildings and bridges removed.

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    Large scale backdrop mapping

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    OS VectorMap Local OS MasterMap Imagery Layer
    Allows you to create your own detailed backdrop maps.
    You can highlight and display specific features on
    the map as well as overlaying your own information, displaying exactly what you want.    		 Provides you with a seamless picture of Great Britain, as a set of aerial photographs.

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    Large scale road and logistics data

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    OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network Layer
    Great Britain’s road network – from motorways to
    pedestrian streets and alleys.
    Consists of three elements: Road Network,
    Road Routing Information and Urban Paths. 

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    Large scale address and location data

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    AddressBase AddressBase Plus AddressBase Premium OS MasterMap Address Layer2

    Current view and precise location of Royal Mail postcode addresses matched to the local authority Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN).

    All the features of AddressBase, but also adds 2 million properties in addition to geographic addresses that do not receive post

    Builds upon AddressBase and AddressBase Plus, but adds historic information on a further 2 million addresses.

    		 Precise coordinates for more than 27 million residential and commercial properties in Great Britain.

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    ADDRESS-POINT

    		 Code-Point Code-Point with polygons Points of Interest

    Defines and locates residential, business and public postal addresses in Great Britain.

    Precise geographical location for each postcode unit in the Great Britain.

    Ccontains postcode boundaries for Great Britain.

    Contains around 4 million places across Great Britain that you can visit – for business and pleasure.

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    What type of mid scale data do you need?

  • Backdrop mapping  
  • Land and height data
  • Address and location data

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    Mid scale backdrop mapping

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    Image to show 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster product

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    1:10 000 Scale Raster 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster OS StreetView
    Providing a context against which analytical information can be displayed. Available in colour or black and white Reflects the OS Explorer Map series. Includes features such as contours, field boundaries and rights of way. Street-level, backdrop map data specifically designed for use on your web site or Intranet.

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    Mid scale land and height data

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    LandForm Profile

    Provides detailed height data, defining the physical
    shape of the landscape of Great Britain.

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    Mid scale address and location data

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    OS Locator Boundary-Line Code-Point Open
    A fully searchable national gazetteer of road names. Allows you to identify and find specific locations by locality, settlement, local authority and county. Contains all levels of electoral and administrative boundaries, from district, wards and civil parishes (or communities) up to parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies. Contains postcode units for Great Britain, each of which has a precise geographic location.

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    What type of small scale data do you need?

  • Backdrop mapping  
  • Land and height data
  • Roads and logistics data
  • Address and location data

    • Small scale backdrop mapping

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    OS VectorMap District 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster Miniscale
    A map on which you can overlay your own information. It can also be customised by selecting and styling different features in different ways. The digital form of the well known OS Landranger Map. Formerly OS Travel Map – Road, scanned as a set of image files. A clear and uncluttered national map. You can customise and convert it into any format you wish as it is created using desktop graphic software.

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    Small scale land and height data

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    LandForm Panorama

    Available as a set of contours with spot heights,
    breaklines, coastline, lakes, ridges and formlines
    with a 10 m contour interval or as a gridded
    DTM with 50 m post spacing.

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    Small scale roads and logistics data

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    Strategi Meridian2
    Ideal to get a regional overview of the road network, railway lines, cities and wooded areas. 1:50,000 scale map allowing you to customise the communication and topographic themes.

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    Small scale address and location data

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    1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer

    Contains over 250,000 place names and is the
    most detailed gazetteer available.

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