UK-OS Terrain 50

Introduction

Land-Form PANORAMA data shown at the Milton Keynes Wind Farm. Picture contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013 Ordnance Survey

OS Terrain 50 is a digital elevation dataset for Great Britain – actively maintained by the Ordnance Survey: Two versions of the dataset exist: one vector-dataset that provides height contours with a 10 m vertical spacing and one gridded dataset with a grid-spacing of 50 m. The resolution of the dataset corresponds to a 1:50000 mapping scale. Update frequency is once a year – in July. The version delivered with windPRO is from 2014.

Coverage

Coverage is for the whole of Great Britain (not including Northern Ireland). For projects in Northern Ireland, we recommend the OSNI dataset [LINK]. For projects in Wales - also consider the LiDAR dataset [Link].

Availability in WindPRO

The 'OS Terrain 50' data can be accessed from the online-services in the following objects:

• Line Object (with purpose to height contour lines)
• Elevation Grid Object

Licence and Acknowledgement

The data is distributed according to the OS OpenData terms . Please take proper care to add proper atribution in order to acknowledge the source of information. Typically, this is done by adding the following statement to your report-picture or map:

Credit: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2018. Distribution through EMD and windPRO.

Raw Data Types

• Raw vector data is stored in shape file format or GML3.2.
• Grid data is stored in either ASCII-Grid or GML3.2.

External Links

• Original data is available from the ‘OS Terrain 50’ web-page of the Ordnance Survey https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/terrain-50.html.
• OS FAQ on OS Terrain 50 - https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/help-and-support/products/terrain-50.html
• OS OpenData Terms / Licence is available here: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/docs/licences/os-opendata-licence.pdf.