KAS Software

Downloads

All files here are free for download for personal use only. Under no circumstances may you redistribute or sell any of these files or executable programs without the express written permission of KAS Software Ltd. By downloading any of these files you are implicitly agreeing to these restrictions.

For all map and gazetteer downloads - with the exception of the MapView installation executable - right click in your browser over the desired link, then select the 'Save Link As...' option. (Although the map and gazetteer files appear to be text files, they have binary data appended to them.)

Latest version of MapView (July 2016)

N.B. Requires DirectX 9, downloadable from the Microsoft Download Centre website. (For LOD maps to work, your graphics card must support L16 textures. Intel® HD Graphics 3000 cards, for example, support this mode.)

MapView is free to download and use, as are all maps, elevation data files, gazetteers and gpx files on this page. If you've found any of these useful then please make a payment to help fund further development, or buy a map from us.

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British Map Starter Pack

Download the following, all derived from OS OpenData sources, for a quick start-up:

• 1:50,000 North West Scotland (290MB)
• 1:250,000 GB map (182MB)
• 2015 OS Terrain 50m height map (123MB)

British Maps & Elevation Data

OS OpenData^TM sourced maps, these all contain Ordnance Survey data, © Crown copyright and database right 2011 & 2014. To find out what the Ordnance Survey permits you to do with OS OpenData^TM see the OS OpenData Licence.

• 2016 GB 1:250,000 map (182MB)
• 2014 GB (North) 1:250,000 LOD map (243MB)
• 2015 OS Terrain 50m height map (123MB)

British Gazetteers

OS OpenData^TM sourced gazetteers, these contain Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011. (Codepoint® gazetteer contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2010 & contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2010 - see OS OpenData Licence):

• 2015 GB postcodes (c.1.5M records, 69MB)
• 2016 GB 50K gazetteer (258,000 records, 9MB)
• 2016 GB 250K gazetteer (25,000 records, 1MB)

Other gazetteers, without any copyright restrictions:

• British hill lists (6 gazetteers, 1400 records, 25KB)
• British historical sites (2 gazetteers, 930 records, 15KB)

USGS Geotiff Maps

You can download masses of USGS Geotiff quads for free from various sites on the internet, such as this GeoTiff file of Old Faithful, Yellowstone, this GeoTiff showing Kilauea Crater, Hawaii, or this one for Phantom Ranch, Grand Canyon, Arizona. (For a comprehensive list of available USGS resources, have a peek at the links page.) There are approximately another 50,000 1:24,000 scale USGS Geotiffs available, a couple of thousand 1:100,000 scale geotiffs and a few hundred 1:250,000 scale files - not to mention files from other mapping agencies worldwide - all can (hopefully) be viewed within MapView.

We've prepared a number of composite maps, in gdf file format, from these free GeoTiffs. Samples of these, at 1:24,000 scale unless otherwise indicated, may be accessed as follows:

• Crater Lake, Oregon (10MB)
• Crater Lake, Oregon LOD Map (55MB)
• El Diente Peak, Colorado (20MB)
• El Diente Peak LOD Map (117MB)
• Grand Teton, Wyoming (14MB)
• Mount McKinley, Alaska 1:63,360 scale (15MB)
• Mount Shasta, California (5MB)
• Mount Whitney, California (8MB)
• Mount St. Helens, Washington (40MB)
• Yosemite, California (25MB)

There's also free USGS NED 1" & 2" elevation data, again in gdf file format, to cover most of the above areas:

• Crater Lake elevation data (12MB)
• El Diente Peak elevation data (27MB)
• Grand Teton elevation data (13MB)
• Mt. Shasta elevation data (13MB)
• Mt. Whitney elevation data (15MB)
• Mt. Mckinley 2" elevation data (11MB)
• Yosemite elevation data (14MB)

World Gazetteers

• World Cities (1700 records, 33KB)
• US Zip Codes (41,000 records, 1.2MB)

Map/Gazetteer Installation

Once downloaded copy the relevant map, height or gazetteer files(s) to a directory of your choice, then use the Settings->Set Preferences menu option, click on the 'Misc Options' tab, then click 'Add Directory...' to add this directory to MapView's working list. Restart MapView and your map(s) will be listed. Be aware that the selected directories and all their sub-directories will be searched for map files the next time MapView starts up.

Sample GPX Files

A variety of sample gpx format files created by MapView. These may be freely copied or redistributed.

Routes

• Ben Nevis
• Bidean nam Bian, Glencoe, Argyll
• Garbh Bheinn, Isle of Skye
• Marsco, Isle of Skye

Tracks

• Bealach na Ba Sportive, 2007 - Single <trkseg> with GPS elevation data.
• Loch Choire - Two <trkseg>'s to give a broken track.

Waypoints

• GB 50K Gazetteer - OS OpenData® (This contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011)
• All Munros (Scottish hills of 3000' or over meeting certain criteria regarding separation and height difference from adjacent summits)
• Corbetts (Scottish hills of 2500' - 2999')
• Grahams (Scottish hills, 2000' - 2499')
• Donalds (Lowland Scotland hills, 2000' or over)

Shapefiles