1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
The digital alternative to our popular OS Landranger paper map series, this is a high-quality map of Great Britain, available in 20km square tiles.
This product is updated quarterly
What 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster provides you with
Used for emergency services
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster helps emergency control centre staff respond more effectively to calls. Using clearly shown landmarks, they can ask distressed callers if they can see the local pub or church, to pinpoint incident locations quickly.
Retina resolution
We give you 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster at a resolution of 254 dpi – and Partners at a staggering 660 dpi – so it looks stunning on today’s high-resolution displays, whether on desktop, tablet or mobile.
Plenty of places to visit
Tourist and heritage attractions of many types are shown on this mapping, so leisure app users can use it to find their way by road, footpath or cycle route to a place of interest, whether it’s a sports centre or a nature reserve.
Ideal for desktop publishing
When you need map extracts for a consultation document or a published magazine, you can open 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster TIFF files in software like Photoshop and InDesign.
Try this product with free sample data
Give it a try
Download a small area of 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
Or try out the real thing by applying for a Data Exploration Licence
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
Technical information
Specifications
- Use cases
For local planners, this map helps you spot brownfield sites ripe for development, and analyse the quality of local transport links. Railways and important roads are clearly colour-coded.
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster is a must-have map in any navigation app or device for walkers and cyclists. It depicts the landscape with superb detail and clarity.
- Access
- Download
- Data theme
- Contextual
- Data structure
- Raster
- Coverage
- Great Britain
- Scale
- 1:50 000
- Format
- GeoTIFF
- TIFF 8-bit LZW compressed
- TIFF Palette 8-bit (256 colours) uncompressed
- Windows® BMP uncompressed
- Ordering area
- Customisable Area (20km2 tiles)
- Publication months
- March
- June
- September
- December
- OS Data Hub plan
- Public Sector Plan
- Premium Plan
- Energy & Infrastructure Plan
Documents and Support
Getting started guides
- 1 50 000 Scale Colour Raster - OverviewThe overview introduces the product and gives context for all users. It highlights key features, provides examples of potential uses for the product and lists details like file sizes, supply formats, etc.
Technical specification
- 1 50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Technical specificationThe technical specification provides detailed technical information about the product. It is targeted at technical users and software developers.
Supporting documents
- 1 50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Map symbols legendThe legend for the 1:50 000 scale colour raster.
- 1 50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Welsh map symbols legendThe Welsh language legend for the 1:50 000 scale colour raster.
- Product refresh datesFind out the update frequencies of our premium products and the calendar months that they are updated.
- Full tile listThe full tile list for 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
- Change only update tile listChange only update tile list for 1: 50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
- 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Georeferencing (TAB files)Download free 10km x 10km TAB files for use with MapInfo®.
- 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Georeferencing (TFW files)Download free 10km x 10km TIFF World Files (TFW) that can be used to georeference raster data in ESRI® ArcGIS.
- Land tiles – Zipped Esri shape filesOur land tiles complete land areas at each zoom level, as required. They define the spatial extents of each product, so you can apply a background colour of your choice to areas of the map that are not covered by Tidal Water.
- 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Sea tilesOur free 10km x 10km sea tiles and supporting TIFF World Files are free to download and let you complete sea areas at each zoom level as required.
- 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Sea tiles (TAB)Free to download.
- 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster - Sea tiles (TFW)Free to download.
Additional information
Defining your own areas
You can order 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster by user-defined areas:
- Specific tile identities
- Administrative region
- Bounding box
It's also available covering:
- Great Britain
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
Tiles are, however, supplied whole rather than being clipped to fit geographic areas.
Colour options
Palette of 256 colours
Converting to a monochrome image
Some software packages have a facility whereby you can load the colour image onto a computer and, using one of the command drop-down menus, select the greyscale option. This will change the colours on an image to shades of grey (greyscale). This is not the same output as monochrome where features in the file are either black or white.
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
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What you get
- Key features
- Used for emergency services
- Retina resolution
- Plenty of places to visit
- Ideal for desktop publishing
- Category
- Contextual or derived mapping
- Access
- Download
- Data structure
- Raster
- Update frequency
- Quarterly
Try this product with free sample data
Give it a try
Download a small area of 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster.
Or try out the real thing by applying for a Data Exploration Licence
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