A range of raster and vector mapping products designed to provide visual context and simple analytical insight. From high-resolution aerial imagery to scalable cartographic views, these products support a wide range of applications from outdoor navigation and urban planning to digital visualisation and geospatial analysis.
Maps and imagery data
Mapping data designed to provide visual context and simple analysis
What is maps and imagery data?
Features of maps and imagery data
Multi-scale mapping
Access mapping for use at national, regional, and local scales, supporting everything from strategic planning to field navigation.
Customisable and pre-styled
Choose between pre-styled raster maps or fully customisable vector formats. Tailor your basemaps to match brand palettes, highlight key features or optimise for different viewing platforms.
Real-world perspective
High-quality aerial imagery enables precise visual analysis for infrastructure, land use and environmental monitoring.
Digital mapping
Access the digital alternative to our popular OS Explorer and OS Landranger paper map series.
Cartographic clarity and context
Access mapping with clear symbology, clutter-free layouts, and regional-scale maps, for geographic context, route planning, and enhancing digital or printed materials with beautifully styled maps.
Sector-ready visualisation
Leisure and tourism, education, urban development and emergency services - our collections of maps and imagery support a wide range of sectors with accessible mapping data.
Products offering these key features
This features table highlights which features are available in mapping and imagery products.
| Feature | Products |
| Large-scale: 1:10,000 and above | OS Open Zoomstack, OS OpenMap – Local, OS VectorMap Local, OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS MasterMap Imagery Layer, OS 3D Mesh |
| Mid-scale: 1:15,000 to 1:100,000 | 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster, 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster, OS Open Zoomstack, OS VectorMap District |
| Small-scale: 1:250,000 and below | 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster, GB Overview Maps, MiniScale, OS Open Zoomstack |
| Orthorectified aerial photography | OS MasterMap Imagery Layer |
| 3D visualisation | OS 3D Mesh |
| Feature classification | OS Open Zoomstack, OS OpenMap – Local, OS VectorMap District, OS VectorMap Local, OS MasterMap Topography Layer |
| Customisable styling | OS Open Zoomstack, OS OpenMap – Local, OS VectorMap District, OS VectorMap Local, OS MasterMap Topography Layer |
| Unique identifiers | OS MasterMap Topography Layer |
| Detailed feature attribution | OS MasterMap Topography Layer |
The maps and imagery products
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster
1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster is the digital alternative to Ordnance Survey's OS Explorer paper map series for Great Britain.
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster
1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster is an open dataset of the regional view of towns and villages, roads and places of interest.
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster
1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster is the digital alternative to Ordnance Survey's OS Landranger paper map series for Great Britain.
GB Overview Maps
Ordnance Survey's GB Overview Maps is an open overview map of Great Britain.
MiniScale
Ordnance Survey's MiniScale is an open national backdrop map of Great Britain.
OS Open Zoomstack
Ordnance Survey's OS Open Zoomstack is an open vector basemap showing coverage of Great Britain from a national level, right down to street detail.
OS OpenMap - Local
OS OpenMap Local is an open dataset of detailed, street-level mapping of Great Britain.
OS VectorMap District
OS VectorMap District is an open basemap to overlay and visualise your own information on.
OS VectorMap Local
OS VectorMap Local is a highly-detailed, customisable, street-level map, showing fences, building outlines, paths and street names.
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
OS MasterMap Topography layer provides a map dataset of Great Britain's landscape – from roads to fields, to buildings and trees, fences, paths and more.
OS MasterMap Imagery Layer
Digital colour-balanced and corrected for geometric distortions (orthorectified) aerial photography for Great Britain.
OS 3D Mesh
OS 3D Mesh is a product providing a photorealistic 3D representation of the surface of the Earth and features above it, such as buildings, roads, and vegetation.
OS NGD API - Tiles
Create beautiful, responsive, and interactive vector maps powered by the OS National Geographic Database (OS NGD).
OS Maps API
OS Maps API offers the most convenient way to add detailed OS data to your application. Benefit from unrivalled levels of detail in your GIS, web or mobile app.
OS Vector Tile API
A vector tile service providing detailed Ordnance Survey data as a customisable basemap.
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