MiniScale

MiniScale is a free small-scale digital map of Great Britain in a single data file that clearly shows towns and cities, motorways, major roads, railways and airports.

  • Contextual or derived mapping
  • Download
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
  • Premium Plan
  • Public Sector Plan

This product is updated annually

Representation of data provided
Representation of data provided
© Crown copyright and database rights. Ordnance Survey 2024

What MiniScale provides you with

See the big picture

MiniScale is ideal as a fast-loading national map of Great Britain for your GIS. It's accurate, quality-assured and easy on the eye.

Ideal for desktop publishing

MiniScale maps are great for desktop publishing. You can print them as wall maps or use extracts in sales brochures or project documents.

Flexible for GIS users and graphic designers

Choose the map that’s right for you. MiniScale downloads include files for both GIS users and graphic designers. We provide a map highlighting roads and cities, and another with terrain to the fore.

MiniScale

Technical information

© Crown copyright and database rights. Ordnance Survey 2024

Specifications

Access
  • Download
Data theme
  • Contextual
Data structure
Raster
Coverage
Great Britain
Scale
1:1,000,000
Format
  • Zip file (containing EPS, Illustrator and TIFF-LZW)
Ordering area
  • All of Great Britain
Publication months
  • January
OS Data Hub plan
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
  • Premium Plan
  • Public Sector Plan

Documents and Support

Getting started guides

  • MiniScale - Product guide
    MiniScale shows the major boundaries, lines of communication, settlements and physical features of Great Britain. This guide provides greater insight into the product and its content.
    pdf
    v3.0
    1.2 mb
    4 January 2021

Technical specification

  • MiniScale - Technical specifications
    The technical specification provides detailed technical information about the product. It is targeted at technical users and software developers.
    pdf
    v3.0
    622 kb
    21 December 2020

Supporting documents

  • MiniScale - Legend
    Miniscale clearly shows towns and cities, motorways, major roads, railways and airports.
    pdf
    2,031 kb
    4 January 2021

Georeferencing, Land and Sea tiles

Additional information

Colour and options

Palette of 256 colours in the TIFF version of this product

Customisation options

You can turn off layers in the .ai files, which open in Adobe Illustrator (open source alternatives are available), then export files in other formats for use in your GIS or printed documents.

Image editing

You can open Miniscale files in Photoshop or similar image editing programmes in order use extracts for location maps and other purposes.

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What you get

Key features
  • See the big picture
  • Ideal for desktop publishing
  • Flexible for GIS users and graphic designers
Category
Contextual or derived mapping
Access
  • Download
Data structure
Raster
Update frequency
Annually

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