OS VectorMap District

Benefits and key features

Provides a clear visual backdrop map that can be easily styled to meet specific needs.
Offers flexibility to user through ease of use to control content display.
Suitable for varying scenarios around the mid-range scale of 1:25,000.
Analyse data in relation to important public buildings, roads, railways, lines and more.
Compatible with other open datasets available from data.gov.uk and many other sources.
Now includes the addition of functional sites (such as education facilities, medical care and airports), improved road styling as well as more flexible and improved styling capability.

OS VectorMap Local

For a more detailed, customisable backdrop map at a larger scale, we recommend OS VectorMap Local. It offers:

Richer content and detailed map.
Clear property extents.
Rural area environment detail and field boundaries.
Higher accuracy to enable further detailed analysis.

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An OS OpenData product

OS VectorMap District is FREE to view, download and use for commercial, educational and personal purposes.

Useful detail

Includes buildings, roads, railways, rivers and forests, plus administrative boundaries, place names and symbols.

Your choice of format

Available as both pre-styled static images (raster data) and points, lines and polygons (vector data) that you can customise.

OS VectorMap District

Case studies

Cornwall Council’s seamless base-map improves customer experience

In a survey over a third of the users of the existing web mapping agreed with the statement ‘I don’t like the way the map changes style as I zoom in and out’. This prompted Cornwall Council to create their own zoom stack mapping styled from Ordnance Survey contextual vector products.

OS OpenData mapping significantly improves cost and time efficiency

For more than 10 years, Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd have been providing private and public sector customers with an efficient and reliable consultancy service, using their expertise to meet any archaeological or heritage requirements – from planning through to construction and beyond. Projects are varied and can range from a wind farm walkover to complex large-scale urban excavation.

Warwickshire County Council's new web GIS increases users with no extra cost

Adopting an open-source solution for the council's internal web geographical information system (GIS) has provided flexibility and ease of use of Ordnance Survey products and council information.

Improved route analysis delivers time and cost savings in South Ayrshire

Having already realised significant efficiencies through geographical information systems (GIS) related projects, South Ayrshire Council continues to develop new ways of using geographic information to improve its services.

Open-source GIS enables new usage of Ordnance Survey data within Neath Port Talbot Council

With a drive for efficiency savings and a need for more council services to use geographical information systems (GIS), open-source software has enabled more departments within the council to start using GIS for the first time.

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OS VectorMap District

Specifications

Key features	What this product offers
Format	Vector	ESRI® Shapefile interchange format
	Vector	GML 3.2 Simple Features (Vector)
	Raster	GeoTIFF with LZW compression (backdrop colour and full-colour options available)
Tile size	100km x 100km	Shape
	GML	20km x 20km
	GeoTIFF	10km x 10km
Attributes	Vector	Thematic layers, including settlements, named places, roads, woodland and administrative boundaries.
Attributes	Raster	Predefined output
Scale	1:15 000 to 1:30 000
Update frequency	Twice a year, in March and September.
Supply	Online download or DVD
Coverage	Great Britain