OS VectorMap® Tiles - GML
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Step 2: Click on Map to select Tiles
Step 3: Options & Buy
Product Information
OS 10k Vector Map Local: 5km x 5km Vector Tiles

OS VectorMap® is an evolving family of products that offers the choice of letting you create your own backdrop map data.
When working on applications such as showing your location, asset management, planning, environmental analysis or risk modelling, this OS product can be uniquely customised to meet your requirements.
OS VectorMap Local also includes non-topographic features such as administrative and electoral boundaries, cartographic text and symbols.
We have this product available in two different format: 1/ GML - default format supplied by OS or 2/ DXF via following this LINK
The total price is based on the following factors:
The number of tiles that you select
How many terminals you plan to use the data on
How many years you want to licence the data for
Step 2
Tile Size:
5000m x 5000m
Step 3
Select Licence Term:
OS VectorMap Local
Support Section
What is OS VectorMap Local:
OS VectorMap Local is a series of 5 km by 5 km tiles of simple vector GML data covering the whole of Great Britain that has been designed for creating graphical mapping. The product can be used as mapping in its own right or can be used to provide a flexible geographic context reference for customers’ overlay information.
As well as the vector dataset, a number of output styles are suggested. These demonstrate the versatility of the dataset to be styled in the appropriate way to support a multitude of different geographic purposes.The main characteristics of the dataset:
• Data is represented by points, lines, polygons, and text.• Feature classes are differentiated by feature descriptions and feature code (FC) attributes.
• No explicit topology other than some polygon features.
• Tiles are complete in themselves; all text falls within the tile body and all polygons that cross tile borders
are closed along the tile edges.
• Road names and Department for Transport (DfT) numbers held as attributes of road alignment features.
• The road casings are feature-coded and cartographically-positioned road text is included as points and
feature-coded (the road text as displayed on 1:10 000 Scale Raster products).
• In addition, additional coverage of road names and numbers are included as points and feature coded.
• There is a FC that represents urban extent.
• Tiles are visually edgematched.
• Artistic ornament, such as large slope symbols, scree, flat rock and so on, are held as vectors and will
render as displayed on 1:10 000 Scale Raster products.
• Content includes contours with the values held as text labels.
• No persistent feature identifiers.
• No feature change history.
• Update is managed by complete tile replacement.
Applications of OS VectorMap Local
geographic information. These may include:
• Banking and insurance
• Land and property
• Navigation products
• Cartographic representation
• Urban extents
OS VectorMap Local topographic features codes are representations of real-world objects, including
buildings, roads, railways, rivers and land area. The data also includes non-topographic features such as
administrative and electoral boundaries, cartographic text and symbols.
What you need to use OS VectorMap Local
Computer hardware
This product may be used on a wide range of hardware platforms (provided sufficient memory and storagefacilities are available), varying from desktop PCs using GIS to mainframe computers with
specialised translators and applications.
Computer software
OS VectorMap Local is supplied as inert data in GML format and does not include software for datamanipulation.
GML is an open standard and the data will need to be translated into the appropriate format for use within a
GIS application.
Product Details
- Vector - for GIS
- Format: GML (DXF version here)
- Mid Scale
- 5k x 5k GML v2.1.2 vector Tiles
- Replaces OS 10k Colour Raster
Downloads / Links
Suggested uses
- Ideal for covering large areas
- Vector Mapping in GIS
- Public Consultation Documents
- Agricultural Services
- Environmental Monitoring
Licence Information
- 1, 2 and 3 years available
- Licence Number supplied with each purchase
Alternative Products
OS Mastermap

Ordnance Survey Large Scale CAD (layered) data.
OS MasterMap Topography Layer in DXF or DWG with optional contours at 0.5m, 1m or 2m intervals.
OS 10k Vector data for CAD

10k Vector data for CAD or GIS - OS Vector Map Local derived - not as detailed as the large scale OS Mastermap but this mid scale vector product is particularly useful for covering larger areas.
OS 10k Raster Tiles

1:10 000 Scale Raster provides a backdrop map product at a mid-scale on which you can overlay your information, to provide a geographic context for your data. Available in 5km x 5km and in Backdrop Colour (washout), Black and White or Colour.
OS Aerial Photography

OS MasterMap® Imagery Layer yields compelling information that you cannot get from mapping alone, such as road markings, habitats, land use, vegetation, pipes and cables, utilities infrastructure, roof types, and building access. 1km x 1km Tiles suppled with the relevent .tfw and .xml file/s.