GB Transportation Network (1:50 000 Meridian 2)

This is the transportation data from the Ordnance Survey Meridian 2 product. It contains Motorways, A roads, B roads, minor roads, roundabouts, junction numbers, railways, railway stations and the coastline. Each feature is in a separate Shapefile. Each Shapefile covers the whole of Great Britain. From the Ordnance Survey Technical Information "The road network in Meridian 2 is a derived and simplified network which has been produced from the Roads database. The simplified data provides a good entry level road network with the advantage of low data volumes to reduce processing time.". GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2010-07-20 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-22.