Identification

Title

OS 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster

Abstract

1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster is Ordnance Survey’s definitive raster product, providing a complete digital view of the popular Landranger® paper map series. It comprises 815 tiles, each 20 km by 20 km, and offers clear detail on roads, footpaths, woods, water features, important buildings and height contours. All topographic features are joined across sheet edges, providing seamless coverage of the entire country.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/50k-raster/index.html

protocol:

name:

description: Product description

function: information

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/web-services/os-ondemand/index.html

protocol:

name:

description: OS On Demand (web map service) description

function: information

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/orders/index.html

protocol:

name:

description: Online ordering system

function: order

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/xml/atom/50colRas.xml

protocol:

name:

description: Atom feed (INSPIRE Download service)

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

OS 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster

codeSpace

ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700

Additional information source

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

boundaries

inlandWaters

elevation

location

transportation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Hydrography

Transport Networks

Elevation

Geographical names

Land Use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Cartographic

Mid-scales

Mapping

Contextual

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.45

East bounding longitude

1.78

North bounding latitude

60.86

South bounding latitude

49.86

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1990-01-01

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Captured and maintained primarily from intelligence obtained from maintained large scale data.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

TIFF 8 bit uncompressed

version of format

1

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

Use limitation dependent upon licence

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey, Great Britain

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

web address

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/

protocol:

name:

description: Ordnance Survey, Great Britain top level website

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey, Great Britain

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2012-11-15T13:50:38

Metadata language