1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster

  • Contextual or derived mapping

1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster is a small-scale, digital, raster mapping product giving a regional view, similar in content and appearance to a typical road atlas.


This product is updated annually

Free to use for everyone
Data access
  • Download
Data theme
  • Contextual
Data structure
  • Raster
Coverage
Great Britain
Scale/resolution
1:250 000
Format
  • TIFF palette 8-bit (256 colours) with LZW compression
Ordering area
  • All of Great Britain
Publication months
  • June
OS Data Hub plan
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
  • Public Sector Plan
  • Premium Plan

What 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster provides you with

Easy to manage

This is a raster (flat image) product, so it's quick to load and simple to use.

A regional backdrop map

Motorways and main roads stand out, but you can also see country lanes clearly.

Clearly see places of interest

Places of interest, including camping and caravan sites are clearly shown.

Save money and benefit from simple licensing terms

1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster is free to view, download and use for commercial, education and personal purposes.

Use cases

1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster product can aid with:

  • route planning;
  • geographic context; and
  • enhancing an Intranet or Internet site.

Encourage tourism in your area

With lots of tourist attractions featured, it’s a great map for your website to help visitors plan days out.

Enhance a leaflet or sales brochure with a map of your local area

You can open the files in image editing software and cut out the area you need.

Additional information

Colour raster in monochrome

Colour Raster is not available in monochrome. Some GIS applications let you load the colour image and choose a greyscale option from an on-screen menu. This will change the colours on an image to shades of grey (greyscale). On a true monochrome map, features would be either black or white. This wouldn’t be the best way to display 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster.

Colour options

Palette of 256 colours

1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster is a small-scale, digital, raster mapping product giving a regional view, similar in content and appearance to a typical road atlas.


This product is updated annually

Free to use for everyone
Data access
  • Download
Data theme
  • Contextual
Data structure
  • Raster
Coverage
Great Britain
Scale/resolution
1:250 000
Format
  • TIFF palette 8-bit (256 colours) with LZW compression
Ordering area
  • All of Great Britain
Publication months
  • June
OS Data Hub plan
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
  • Public Sector Plan
  • Premium Plan