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Features and benefits
1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster is a small-scale digital raster map data product that provides a regional view of the landscape. Similar in content and appearance to a typical road atlas, it's ideal as a high quality basic location map of a wide area and does not need to be relicensed each year.
The product shows landscape features clearly, including:
- Cities, towns, villages, centres of population
- Motorways, A and B roads
- Railways
- Rivers
- Places of interest
- Some woodland features
Perfect for
- Transport planning and management
- Displaying regional demographic data
- Emergency planning and management
Usable formats
- Georeferenced TIFF
Key Points
- Mainly used for Road-Atlases
- Great for a high quality, basic location map
- It emphasises the main roads and places of interest
- Ideal for viewing a wide area
Samples
250k Raster (PDF)1.5mb
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