Digital Map Data of the United Kingdom

Road Atlas Maps and Street Maps

Graticule offers digital map data of the United Kindom at different scales and with different features. Our most popular map types are listed below but other data is often available. Please contact our sales team to discuss your requirements.

• Collins Bartholomew Great Britain
  

  © Collins Bartholomew 2008
  

  Graticule offers Collins Bartholomew digital map data of Great Britain for creating attractive, high quality and accurate maps in software applications and web-sites. The digital map data are supplied in the National Grid of Great Britain and are available in a several different formats to suit your requirements for mapping.

  Digital road atlas map data of Great Britain provides geographical information about the road, rivers, railways, towns and many other features. The colour map provides a neat portrayal of the distribution of features throughout Great Britain. The selection and representation of features, the choice of colours and the scale make the maps highly attractive, familiar and easy to view.

  The digital map data was designed and created for the printed Road Atlas Maps of Great Britain which are printed and published by Collins Bartholomew. The maps make it easy to find your way around the country by road. The digital map data can be used for vehicle tracking, route finding and logistics scheduling as well as for giving a geographical view of Great Britain and its regions.

  The main features included in the digital map data of Great Britain include: Administrative Boundaries (International boundaries and internal boundaries, including coastlines), Contours, Distances, Drainage, Forest Parks, Heights, Lines, National Parks, Points (including oil wells, oases and tunnel mouths), Roads, Reserves, Rail/Ferries, Regional Parks, Sands, Scenic Areas, Towns, Text Annotations, Urban, Water and Woodland.

  Map data is available in vector format with separate map layers available for roads, rivers, railways, towns, forests, boundaries, etc. or as a raster image at scales of 1:200,000 and 1:800,000.




Street and Road Data



• Andes Street and Road Maps
  

  © Andes 2007
  

  Andes raster digital map data is available at different map scales from Level 1 (1:7,000) to Level 5 (1:500,000). Andes map data at a particular scale is supplied with the higher level raster data as well, making Andes data suitable for applications requiring zooming between scales. The Andes maps contains street and road names, urban areas, water courses, and woodlands and at high level are particularly useful for showing the locations of streets in urban areas. The Andes map data is derived from, and fully compatible with, Navteq vector map data.

  Coverage is available for the whole of the UK or selected regions of the UK at regional or county level.

  
  
  
• Automobile Association (AA)
  

  © AA 2007
  

  AA digital map data of Great Britain is available in raster and vector formats. The vector map data includes 64 separate map layers with roads sorted by class of road and by rural or urban. The raster map data resembles the classic printed AA road atlases and includes urban areas, water courses, railways and other featurss and is supplied with a gazetteer with some 31,000 points of interest. Vecto is available at 1:200,000 while raster data is available at 1:100,000, 1:200,000 and 1:500,000 scales.

  The AA digital map data is available for Great Britain or seperately for England, Wales, Scotland and the area inside the M25 region in London. The gazetteer, railways, roads and water layers are available separately as vector map layers. The AA data includes a free link and node database with average road speeds and lengths for route finding software applications and can optionally be supplied with the speed and traffic flow data for Great Britain.



• Navteq Street and Road Maps
  

  © Navteq 2007
  

  Navteq create a comprehensive and consistent set of street maps of the UK in vector format. The Navteq map data is large scale, contains street names and other features and is ideal for vehicle routing, delivery scheduling and route finding as well as providing highly detailed background vector mapping.

  The Navteq vector map data is supplied at Base, Standard and Premium levels offering additional information to the detailed street maps. The Base level maps include administrative areas, boundaries, water features, railways and a gazetteer of points-of-interest as well as the information about the streets and roads with names. Standard level maps include more points-of-interest and address ranges. Premium level maps include navigational information such as road restrictions including one way streets, restrictions applying to particular vehicles and tolls.

  As a lower cost option the Navteq Roads data excludes minor and rural roads but retains the main road network at the same level of detail. Navteq road maps are often used in vehicle routing applications where the lower amount of data can reduce calculation time.

  Both street and road level coverage are available for the UK including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Regional sets are also available.

  Additional information can be added to a Navteq set including average road speeds (derived from real surveyed data), lorry restrictions, fuel stations, road lane details, congestion charging zones, bridge heights and building footprints/3D models.



• Philips Streets and Navigator
  

  © Philips 2007
  

  Philips raster street maps are available between 1:7000 and 1:18,000 and provide detailed street maps with names provided for all named streets and roads. The data also provides urban and rural features, points of interest, postcode and administrative boundaries.

  Philips digital maps are available for the whole of the UK and are available at county level or specified individual tiles. Licences for a full county level set include a street-name gazetteer for quick reference. The familiar cartographic style of the Philips street map tiles make them popular for use with satellite global positioning system (GPS) receivers for provision of background maps and are widely used by taxi and delivery companies with in-car navigation devices.

  Philips Navigator digital map data covers the UK at a scale of 1:100,000 providing smaller scale coverage to complement the street maps. It includes a selection physical features to assist with navigation - such as woodland, lakes, rivers and coastlines - as well as offering detailed coverage of the UK road network, displaying all roads and country lanes. The Philips SuperPlanner is available at 1:625,000 and 1:1,000,000 scale and provides smaller scale coverage of the UK, displaying all primary road routes and major settlements. All of the small scale Philips maps also include place name Gazetteers for easy navigation.





Gazetteer Data



• Collins Bartholomew GB Locator Gazetteer

  Great Britain Locator from Collins Bartholomew is a gazetteer with over 59,000 records covering England, Wales, Scotland, The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The gazetteer contains some 35,000 entries for cities, towns and settlements and 24,000 entries for points of interest and physical features.

  The dataset includes a wealth of information with:
  • 35,000 settlements
  • 5,000 land and water features
  • 4,000 places of interest
  • 3,200 railway stations
  • 3,000 mountains/hills
  • 2,500 golf courses
  • 1,600 rivers
  • 1,250 road junctions
  • 1,000 lakes/lochs

  Each record in the Gazetteer has several attributes including the name of place or feature, its postcode sector, county, feature classification both in text and numerical formats, a unique ID for reference, location as Easting and Northing in the National Grid and longitude and latitude in the world geographic co-ordinate system.

  Some entries include different names with Gaelic and Welsh spellings. The names of hills and mountain ranges include elevations and over 3000 settlements include census data about the population.

  New: a combined UK gazetteer set is now available with over 3000 entries for Northern Ireland, in British or Irish National Grid.



• GB Street Gazetteer

  • The Great Britain Street Gazetteer is a geolocational database of all the streets and roads in Great Britain.

    Each entry includes, street name, postcode sector, administrative district, locality, and GB National Grid Easting/Northings coordinates. The GB Street gazetteer is typically supplied as a CSV file or is available as a vector point file.

  
  
  
• UK Postcode Data

  Postcode data of the UK is available derived directly from the Royal Mail database

  Please see the UK Postcode Data page for more information.

For details on map data types and options for licencing digital map data, please see our Map Data introduction page.