OS VectorMap® District

Data Download Version

May 2020

Download allowance:

8 Tiles

Formats Available:

SHP, GML3

Version in Roam:

May 2020

View in Roam:

Local View, Neighbourhood View

Terms of Use:

Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence

Copyright Statement:

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2020

Scale:

1:25,000

Tile Size:

100 x 100km

Example Uses:
  • Customised district level backdrop mapping
  • Customising the road network
  • Customising landscape details
Official Information Sources:

Overview

OS VectorMap District is a flexible cartographic vector product that enables you to overlay your own information. It is a mid-scale vector OpenData product from the Ordnance Survey with a nominal scale of 1:25,000 and is recommend for display between 1:15,000 and 1:35,000. There are 55 tiles each covering 100 x 100km, file sizes vary between 1 and 697Mb.

The majority of content derived from the mid-scales database, however Buildings, cartographic text and functional sites are derived from large-scale database.

The dataset includes features in the following categories:

Buildings; Roads; Surface Water; Boundaries; Railways; Public Amenities; Heritage Sites; Woodland; Rock Outcrops; Power Lines; Place Names; and Spot Heights.

NOTE: There is also a Raster version available from Data Download.

For more information about the product see the official Ordnance Survey User Guide:

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/product-guides/os-vectormap-district-product-guide.pdf

Additional Information

Styling Files:
 

Data Format

ShapeFile

GML

ArcGIS

OS Layer files
EDINA Layer files

 

QGIS

OS QML files
**

OS QML files
OS SLD files

** Additional style files exist for ShapeFile data loaded in to Oracle and PostGIS using GO Loader from Snowflake Software: these can be found here.

Printable Legend:
Sample Data: N/A