Model wind direction and lines of sight
Make better decisions about where to locate wind turbines and mobile phone masts. OS Terrain 50 lets you model wind direction and lines of sight at your desk, meaning fewer site visits.
OS Terrain 50
What OS Terrain 50 provides you with
Plan landscape defences
Get the bigger picture about flood risk, soil erosion and pollution. By showing steep hillside gradients, OS Terrain 50 helps you plan flood defences and safeguard the landscape.
More engaging maps
With the contours version of OS Terrain 50, you can shade in hills to show their height. This extra sense of depth is ideal for walking maps and apps.
Surface model entire landscapes
Get an accurate, uncluttered view of the terrain with the grid version of OS Terrain 50. Its 50 metre post spacing gives you a surface model of the entire landscape, including major roads, large lakes and estuaries.
Take account of tides
The contours dataset also includes mean high and low water boundaries.
Use cases
- Suited to broad-scale terrain analysis, supporting regional planning, assessments and development to visualise terrain across large areas.
- Valuable for improving public service delivery such as routes to school, refuse collection and active travel corridors.
- Provides insurers model accumulation risk by showing how terrain affects the clustering of properties, enabling better decisions around coverage and pricing.