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Data types
Maps and atlases
Helicon offers physical and political map data at a wide variety of scales. Covering the world, Helicon data is available in a number of formats and can be supplied with a wide array of additional textual content, including gazetteer articles, country fact boxes, photographs, flags, and national anthems.
The Helicon World Database
A detailed and versatile world cartographic database at scales ranging from 1:3 million to 1:25 million. The database is suited to both print and online formats, and has special relevance to the fields of publishing, education, marketing, and travel.
Mapping can be produced from the data in a wide variety of styles and designs (including physical and political background colouring). The GIS data can also be used on desktop systems, distributed online, or used in a wide variety of print formats. Because the data is fully geo-referenced, it can be combined with data from other sources as required.
Data is held at the following scales:
- 1:3,000,000 – Europe
- 1:4,000,000 – New Zealand
- 1:5,000,000 – Japan
- 1:6,000,000 – USA
- 1:10,000,000 and 1:25,000,000 – the whole world
Features include:
- Airports
- Bathymetric layers
- Built-up areas
- Canals
- Coastline
- Country boundaries
- Country political fills
- Country names
- Deserts
- Disputed boundaries
- Graticule
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- Hillshading
- Hypsometric layers
- Ice caps
- International dateline
- Lakes
- Marshes
- Motorways
- Mountain heights
- Mountain passes
- Physical names
- Railways
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- Rivers
- Roads
- Salt lakes
- Salt pans
- Seasonal rivers
- Settlements
- State boundaries
- State political fills
- Tropics
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All of the above are available as vector and raster data sets. For further information, plase contact us.
The Helicon Country Map Suite
If you are simply looking for a clear, stand-alone country map for Web use, Helicon can offer clear maps for each country in the world, optimized for online use.
This set of 193 maps provides the ideal source for country maps to illustrate Web pages, travel articles, or any other publication, either in print or online. The maps have been designed to fit into a single screen display and are therefore at a variety of different scales. Presented in 'island' style, each map depicts one country floating free of any surrounding territory. This feature makes it simple to incorporate the maps into any existing page design where text, map, and illustrations need to be integrated.
The maps include major cities and towns, rivers, and principal motorways and roads, plus a selection of physical features, as well as lines of latitude and longitude and a scale bar. Each country map also has a small locator map showing its position within the continent in which it is found.
All maps are available in raster format.
Each map fits within a standard window of 640 × 480 pixels.
Helicon data for Great Britain and Ireland
A highly flexible general reference data set of Great Britain and Ireland at the scale of 1:1,000,000, with the scope to be able to create maps with either a physical or a political backdrop. The data is particularly suited to a variety of online applications and can be used for cartographic publishing (it is ideal for a single-sheet map of the British Isles).
Features include:
- Administrative area boundaries
- Administrative area colours
- Administrative area names
- Airports
- Bathymetric layers
- Built-up areas
- Cities and towns
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- Coastline
- Hill shading
- Hypsometric layers
- Lakes
- Main roads
- Motorways
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- Mountain heights
- National boundaries
- Physical features
- Railways
- Rivers
- Location index to 1,200 places
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