Ordnance Survey User Guides Download Page
This page allows you to download the full product User Guides for each
of the Ordnance Survey products that are available through Digimap.
The current editions of these User Guides are also available from the
Ordnance
Survey Web site. This page also includes previous editions where they
are relevant to data available from Digimap.
You can view and print PDF files using Adobe Acrobat Reader which you
can download from here:

Note that some of these documents are rather large. If you require a
paper copy, you should check whether your site representative already
holds a copy.
Choose one of the links below to jump to the relevant section of this
page:
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| OS MasterMap Topography Layer |
December 2009 - v1.8 |
User
Guide(3.5Mb) |
| OS MasterMap Topography
Layer |
July 2007 - v1.3 |
User
Guide (0.8 Mb) |
| OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network
Layer |
November - v1.0 |
User
Guide (6Mb) |
| OS MasterMap Integrated
Transport Network Layer |
April 2007 |
User
Guide (0.8 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| Land-Form PROFILE
User Guide v4.0 |
May 2001 |
User
Guide (0.8 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| Land-Form PANORAMA
User Guide v4.1 |
October 2004 |
User
Guide (1.8 Mb) |
| Land-Form PANORAMA
User Guide v3.0 |
January 2001 |
User
Guide (2.16 Mb) |
| Land-Form PANORAMA
User Guide v2.0 |
June 1997 |
User
Guide (0.9 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| Meridian 2 User
Guide v5.3 |
December 2008 |
User
Guide (2.0 Mb) |
| Meridian 2 User
Guide v5.2 |
February 2007 |
User
Guide (1.5 Mb) |
| Meridian 2 User
Guide v4.3 |
June 2005 |
User
Guide (2.7 Mb) |
| Meridian 2 User
Guide v4.1 |
January 2004 |
User
Guide (1.95 Mb) |
| Meridian 2 User
Guide v4.0 |
March 2003 |
User
Guide (1.95 Mb) |
| Meridian 2 User
Guide v3.1 |
March 2002 |
User
Guide (1.38 Mb) |
| Meridian 2 User
Guide v3.0 |
December 2000 |
User
Guide (1.53 Mb) |
| Meridian User Guide
v2.0 |
January 1997 |
User
Guide (1.53 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| Strategi User Guide
v6.3 |
March 2006 |
User
Guide (1.2 Mb) |
| Strategi User Guide
v6.1 |
January 2004 |
User
Guide (1.7 Mb) |
| Strategi User Guide
v6.0 |
March 2003 |
User
Guide (2.8 Mb) |
| Strategi User Guide
v5.2 |
February 2002 |
User
Guide (1.9 Mb) |
| Strategi User Guide
v5.0 |
January 2001 |
User
Guide (1.8 Mb) |
| Strategi User Guide
v4.1 |
November 1999 |
User
Guide (0.8 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| 1:10 000 Scale Raster
User Guide v2.2 |
April 2009 |
User
Guide (1.2 Mb) |
| 1:10 000 Scale Raster
User Guide v2.1 |
October 2007 |
User
Guide (1.1 Mb) |
| 1:10 000 Scale Raster
Legend File |
October 2007 |
Legend
File (0.1 Mb) |
| 1:10 000 Scale Raster
User Guide v2.0 |
January 2007 |
User
Guide (2.1 Mb) |
| 1:10 000 Scale Raster
User Guide |
March 2004 |
User
Guide (1 Mb) |
| 1:10 000 Scale Raster
Legend File |
2004 |
Legend
File (0.1 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| 1:25 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide v2.2 |
June 2009 |
User
Guide (2.5 Mb) |
| 1:25 000 Scale Colour
Raster Legend File v3 |
June 2009 |
Legend
File (0.9 Mb) |
| 1:25 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide v2 |
December 2007 |
User
Guide (2.5 Mb) |
| 1:25 000 Scale Colour
Raster Legend File v2 |
March 2008 |
Legend
File (1.7 Mb) |
| 1:25 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide v1.1 |
April 2003 |
User
Guide (0.5 Mb) |
| 1:25 000 Scale Colour
Raster Legend File |
2003 |
Legend
File (0.2 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide v2.2 |
December 2008 |
User
Guide (1.2 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster Legend File v2 |
March 2008 |
Legend
File (0.3 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide v2.0.1 |
January 2008 |
User
Guide (2.9 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide |
March 2004 |
User
Guide (0.9 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster Legend File |
2002 |
Legend
File (3.3 Mb) |
The 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer shares a User Guide with the 1:50 000 Scale
Colour Raster.
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide v2.2 |
December 2008 |
User
Guide (1.2 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide v2.0.1 |
January 2008 |
User
Guide (2.9 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster User Guide |
March 2004 |
User
Guide (0.9 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer
Information Sheet |
2004 |
Info
Sheet (1.8 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer
Information Sheet |
2003 |
Info
Sheet (2.8 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| 1:250 000 Scale
Colour Raster User Guide v2.2 |
December 2008 |
User
Guide (3.6 Mb) |
| 1:50 000 Scale Colour
Raster Legend File v2 |
March 2008 |
Legend
File (0.2 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| MiniScale User Guide
v1.5 |
January 2009 |
User
Guide (3.6 Mb) |
The Ordnance Survey release Code-Point as two products: Code-Point®
(attribute files only, in NTF and CSV format) and Code-Point®
with polygons (attributes are as with Code-Point but this product includes
postcode unit polygon data in e00 or MID/MIF format).
There is an Ordnance Survey user guide for each product. If you are
only interested in the Code-Point CSV or NTF attribute data, you should
download only the Code-Point User Guide. If you want information on Code-Point
with polygons, we suggest that you download both the Code-Point User Guide
and the Code-Point with Polygons User Guide.
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| Code-Point User
Guide v2.5 |
August 2008 |
User
Guide (1.7 Mb) |
| Code-Point User
Guide v2.3 |
March 2008 |
User
Guide (1.3 Mb) |
| Code-Point User
Guide v2.1 |
May 2006 |
User
Guide (0.3 Mb) |
| Code-Point User
Guide v2.0 |
May 2002 |
User
Guide (0.8 Mb) |
| Code-Point with
Polygons User Guide v2.8 |
May 2009 |
User
Guide (2.3 Mb) |
| Code-Point with
Polygons User Guide v2.5 |
November 2007 |
User
Guide (2.3 Mb) |
| Code-Point with
Polygons User Guide v2.3 |
July 2006 |
User
Guide (2.4 Mb) |
| Code-Point with
Polygons User Guide v2.2 |
June 2005 |
User
Guide (2.7 Mb) |
| Code-Point with
Polygons User Guide v2.0 |
March 2003 |
User
Guide (0.7 Mb) |
| Code-Point with
Polygons User Guide v1.0 |
June 2001 |
User
Guide (0.6 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| Boundary-Line User
Guide v1.5 |
May 2009 |
User
Guide (1.2 Mb) |
| Boundary-Line User
Guide v1.2 |
May 2008 |
User
Guide (0.9 Mb) |
| Boundary-Line User
Guide v5.1 |
April 2007 |
User
Guide (0.9 Mb) |
| Boundary-Line User
Guide v4.1 |
November 2005 |
User
Guide (1.2 Mb) |
| Boundary-Line User
Guide v4.0 |
May 2005 |
User
Guide (1.6 Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| OS Street View User
Guide v 1.6 |
May 2009 |
User
Guide |
| OS Street View Legend
File |
May 2009 |
Legend
File |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| OS VectorMap District User Guide v1.3 |
March 2013 |
User
Guide |
| OS VectorMap District User Guide v1.0 |
March 2011 |
User
Guide |
| OS VectorMap District
Legend |
March 2011 |
Legend
File |
| OS VectorMap District
Release Notes |
March 2011 |
Release
Notes |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| OS VectorMap Local v1.2 |
February 2011 |
User
Guide |
| OS VectorMap Local
v1.1 |
September 2009 |
User
Guide (5Mb) |
| Manual |
Publication
Date |
Download
Link |
| OS Locator v1.3 |
April 2011 |
User
Guide (4Mb) |