Ordnance Survey ® OpenMap - Local Buildings are polygon features that represent a built entity that includes a roof. This is a generalized building and could be made up of an amalgamation of other buildings and structures.Ordnance Survey ® OpenMap - Local Important Buildings are polygon features that represent buildings that fall within the extent of a functional site across England, Wales and Scotland. Important Buildings are classified into a number of building themes such as:Attraction and Leisure - A feature that provides non-sporting leisure activities for the public. Includes Tourist Attractions.Air Transport - This theme includes all sites associated with movement of passengers and goods by air, or where aircraft take off and land. Includes Airport, Helicopter Station, Heliport.Cultural Facility - A feature that is deemed to be of particular interest to society. Includes Museum, Library, Art Gallery.Education facility - This theme includes a very broad group of sites with a common high level primary function of providing education (either state funded or by fees). Includes: Primary Education, Secondary Education, Higher or University Education, Further Education, Non State Secondary Education, Non State Primary Education, Special Needs Education.Emergency Services - Emergency services are organizations which ensure public safety and health by addressing different emergencies. Includes: Fire Station, Police Station.Medical Facility - This theme includes sites which focus on the provision of secondary medical care services. Includes: Medical Care Accommodation, Hospital, Hospice.Religious Building - A place where members of a religious group congregate for worship. Includes: Places of Worship (churches etc.)Retail - A feature that sells to the general public finished goods. Includes: Post OfficeRoad Transport - This theme includes: Bus Stations, Coach Stations, Road user services.Sports and Leisure Facility - A feature where many different sports can be played. Includes: Sports and Leisure CentreWater Transport - This theme includes sites involved in the transfer of passengers and or goods onto vessels for transport across water. Includes: Port consisting of Docks and Nautical Berthing, Vehicular Ferry Terminal, Passenger Ferry Terminal.With OS OpenMap - Local Buildings and Important Buildings you can:Understand your area in detail, including the location of key sites such as schools and hospitals.Share high-quality maps of development proposals to help interested parties to understand their extent and impact.Analyse data in relation to important public buildings, roads, railways, lines and more.Use in conjunction with other layers such as Functional Sites – an area or extent which represents a certain type of function or activity.Present accurate information consistently with other available open data products.The currency of the data is 04/2025

Locations of Major GCC and Glasgow Life Buildings, by specified type. Includes GCC Service Department HQs/main buildings, Major Glasgow Life Facilities, ALEO HQs etc e.g. Libraries, Sports Centres, Swimming Pools, Museums, etc. Selected Community Facilities - Community Halls, Youth Centres, Neighbourhood Centres - which have Glasgow Life managemanagement committment but which and operated by the Voluntary Sector. Selected Community Facilities - Community Centres, Youth Centres, Recreation Centres - managed and operated by Glasgow Life.

When a building is recognised as being of special architectural or historic interest it is added to the statutory ‘List’. This is compiled by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on advice from Historic England. Buildings on the List are given one of three grades which denote their level of importance, Grade I being the highest and Grade II the lowest: • Grade I (one) ¬ of exceptional interest • Grade II* (two star) ¬ particularly important • Grade II (two) ¬ of special interest Structures that might not be classified as ‘buildings’ ¬ such as railings, gate piers, walls, war memorials, gravestones, post boxes and telephone boxes ¬ can all be Listed Buildings. Related to Listed Buildings are Certificates of Immunity (COI) and Building Preservation Notices (BPN).

Gridded maps of building patterns throughout sub-Saharan Africa, version 1.1. Source of building footprints "Ecopia Vector Maps Powered by Maxar Satellite Imagery" © 2020.

This is a form of ‘temporary’ listing. Local authorities have the power to serve a BPN on the owner of a building which is not listed, but which is of special architectural/historical interest and in danger of being demolished or altered. A BPN lasts for a period of six months and in effect makes an unlisted building subject to the same rules as if it were listed. This allows time for a formal assessment to be carried out.

The property subsidence assessment dataset provides an understanding of the shrink-swell hazard at both the individual property and/or postcode level for England and Wales. It builds upon the BGS GeoSure shrink-swell data by mapping the hazard to the individual building polygon and considering the other susceptibility factors of building type, foundation depth, and drainage and tree proximity. The data consist of GIS building polygons with an overall susceptibility to subsidence score between 1-100. Scores are also classified from non-plastic to very high. Each building polygon is also scored from 1-10 for each subsidence factor (geology, foundation, drainage, building type, building storey and tree proximity). Postcode data is also available as a table showing the ‘average’ PSA score for all buildings within the postcode. The identification of shrink-swell related subsidence prone areas, alongside the inclusion of potential sources to exacerbate these phenomena, can better inform insurers and homeowners and form the basis to make decisions concerning prevention and remediation. The product enhances geological information obtained from GIP (BGS GeoSure Insurance Product) and GeoSure via the inclusion of the crucial shrink-swell susceptibility factors (proximity to trees and foundation depth). This therefore allows the derivation of a risk element for the housing stock at Building level, which is then generalised to Postcode level. BGS GeoSure - a series of GIS digital maps identifying areas of potential natural ground movement hazard in Great Britain

The Mayor is committed to cutting fuel poverty and increasing the energy efficiency of buildings across London. To help target where action is most needed, the Mayor has developed a London Building Stock Model with the UCL Energy Institute. The London Building Stock Model is a database of all the energy and carbon data collected through the Mayor’s energy programmes and policies. It provides a snapshot of all London’s buildings (both domestic and non-domestic) with information on their energy performance certificates as of 2017.

More information is available here, and an interactive map is available here.

Most of the data from the London Building Stock Model interactive map has been made available through the data extracts below. Please note that the data extracts are based on Ordnance Survey's list of London properties as of 2023. However, as the London Building Stock Model data is from 2017, some of the properties might not have any London Building Stock Model data attached to them.

The data contains Ordnance Survey mapping and the data is published under Ordnance Survey's 'presumption to publish'. © Crown copyright and database rights 2023

The London Building Stock Model v2 provides energy efficiency data for all London homes. This includes information on EPC ratings, heating systems, insulation levels and building fabric. This dataset represents an update of the original London Building Stock Model, and it brings together data from Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), alongside data from other sources such as the London borough councils and the GLA. For properties that don't have data from an EPC or an alternative source, we’ve generated modelled values for these properties through machine learning. For more information on our methodology, please see this blog post. An interactive map for this data is available here. The data from the London Building Stock Model interactive map has been made available through the data extracts below. The current version of the London Building Stock Model v2 is based on data from October 2024. The data contains Ordnance Survey mapping and the data is published under Ordnance Survey's 'presumption to publish'. © Crown copyright and database rights 2023

The London Building Stock Model v2 provides energy efficiency data for all London homes. This includes information on EPC ratings, heating systems, insulation levels and building fabric.

This dataset represents an update of the original London Building Stock Model, and it brings together data from Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), alongside data from other sources such as the London borough councils and the GLA. For properties that don't have data from an EPC or an alternative source, we’ve generated modelled values for these properties through machine learning. For more information on our methodology, please see this blog post.

An interactive map for this data is available here. The data from the London Building Stock Model interactive map has been made available through the data extracts below.

The current version of the London Building Stock Model v2 is based on data from October 2024.

The data contains Ordnance Survey mapping and the data is published under Ordnance Survey's 'presumption to publish'. © Crown copyright and database rights 2023

Echo’s boundary dataset maps locations with precise polygons, enabling accurate foot traffic attribution, area analysis, and location-based strategy.

In the United Kingdom (UK) geological maps traditionally have been attributed with lithostratigraphical map units. However, without significant supplementary information, these maps can be only of limited use for planning and engineering works. During the middle part of the 20th century, as development of the science of engineering geology began to accelerate, engineering geological maps started to appear in various forms and at various scales to meet the challenge of making geological maps more suited to land-use planning, engineering design, building, construction and maintenance. Today, engineering geological maps are routinely used at various scales as part of the engineering planning, design and construction process. However, until recently there had been no comprehensive, readily available engineering geological map of the UK to provide the broad context for ground investigation. This paper describes the recently published (2011) 1:1 000 000 scale engineering geology superficial and bedrock maps of the UK. It describes the methodologies adopted for their creation and outlines their potential uses, limitations and future applications.

Details of land and building assets owned by Cheshire East Council as at 9 January 2024, that meet the requirements and definitions under the Local Government Transparency Code 2015.This information is updated on an annual basis. A table of the data is also available.Due to the nature of the information provided, the asset register is provided 'as is' and we makes no representations regarding its contents, and excludes all warranties as its quality or completeness. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the council excludes liability for any errors or omissions in the asset register and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any kind caused by its use.

This dataset contains a sample of 10,000 (3.5%) out of a total of 285,846 text sequences extracted from the 1891–1896 Map of London by the Ordnance Survey (OS).

The methodology used for the automated recognition, linking, and sequencing of the text is detailed in the article Recognizing and Sequencing Multi-word Texts in Maps Using an Attentive Pointer by M. Zou et al., 2025.

Description of the content

The map is drawn at a scale of five-feet to the mile (c.a. 1:1,056). The text on the map is an invaluable source of information about the Greater London in the late Victorian period. It includes the names of streets, squares, parks, watercourses and even some estates ('Poplars', 'The Grange', 'Arbutus Lodge'). In addition, the map contains many details of the function of buildings and economic activity, such as factories ('Sweet Factory', 'Crown Linoleum Works', 'Imperial Flour Mills', 'Lion Brewery'), warehouses or commercial infrastructure ('Warehouse', 'Jamaica Wharf', 'Rag Store'), offices ('Offices'), etc. The map also mentions public buildings such as schools ('School Boys, Girls & Infants', 'Sunday School'), hospitals or clinics ('St. Saviour's Union Infirmary', 'Beulah Spa Hydropathic Establishment', 'South Western Fever Hospital'), railway stations ('Clapham Station'), post offices, banks, police stations, etc. Other social venues are also mentioned, such as public houses, i.e. pubs ('P.H.'), clubs, casinos, and recreational areas (e.g. 'Cricket Ground'). Special attention is given to churches, with a regular count of the number of seats (e.g. 'Baptist Chapel Seats for 600').

In addition, the map provides details that can be of great interest in the study of everyday life in London at the end of the 19th century. For example, there are numerous mentions of 'Stables', 'Drinking Fountain'[s] (or simply 'Fn.') or 'Urinal'[s]. Fire protection infrastructure is highlighted, e.g. fire plugs ('F.P.') and fire alarms ('F.A.'). The map also includes information on elevation (e.g. '11·6') and flood levels (e.g. 'High Water Mark of Ordinary Tides').

A list of abbreviations used in the Ordnance Survey maps, created by Richard Oliver [1], is made available by the National Library of Scotland (link).

Organization of the data

The data in 10k_text_london_OS_1890s.geojson is organized as a regular geojson file.

Example structure

{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"features": [
{
"type": "Feature",
"geometry": {
"type": "MultiPolygon",
"coordinates": [[[ [x1, y1], [x2, y2], ...]]]
},
"properties": {
"label": "Oxford Circus",
}
},

... # Further text sequences


]
}

Image documents

The original map document consists of 729 separate sheets, digitized, georeferenced, and served as geographic tiles by the National Library of Scotland [2].

Descriptive statistics

Total Number of text sequences: 285,846
Sample size: 10,000
Total Area covered: 450 square km

Use and Citation

For any mention of this dataset, please cite :

@misc{text_london_OS_1890s,
author = {Zou, Mengjie and Petitpierre, R{\'{e}}mi and di Lenardo, Isabella},
title = {{London 1890s Ordnance Survey Text Layer}},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Zenodo},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14982946}}

@article{recognizing_sequencing_2025,
author = {Zou, Mengjie and Dai, Tianhao and Petitpierre, R{\'{e}}mi and Vaienti, Beatrice and di Lenardo, Isabella},
title = {{Recognizing and Sequencing Multi-word Texts in Maps Using an Attentive Pointer}},
year = {2025}}

Corresponding author

Rémi PETITPIERRE - remi.petitpierre@epfl.ch - ORCID - Github - Scholar - ResearchGate

License

This project is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Liability

We do not assume any liability for the use of this dataset.

References

1. Oliver R. (2013). Ordnance Survey maps: A concise guide for historians. The Charles Close Society. London, UK. 3rd Ed. 320 pages
2. Ordnance Survey, London, five feet to the mile, 1893-1896 (1896), https://maps.nls.uk/os/townplans-england/london-1056-1890s.html, digitized by the National Library of Scotland (NLS)

Edinburgh Cooperative Building Company -Edinburgh Colonies 1863/1907 - Drawn as part of the Visualising Urban Geographies project - view other versions of the map at: http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/resources_boundaries.html The data is in British National Grid. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2011-06-01 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new mapp of the city of London c. : with the many additionall buildings and new streets anno 1723 in a playne. It was printed and sold by Thomas Taylor at the Golden Lyon in Fleet Street, 1723. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map was georeferenced as part of the Authorial London project, an application which allows users to visualize the spatial overlap of varios authors who lived in and traveled through London over the last 600 years.

A COI is a legal guarantee which prevents a building from being listed during a specified five year period. The issue of a certificate also prevents the local authority from serving a Building Preservation Notice (see below) on the respective property during this period.

The 'Register’ of Historic Parks and Gardens was established in 1983, with the emphasis placed on protecting 'designed' landscapes rather than those with botanical importance. The Register safeguards a broad range of planned open spaces, including public parks, cemeteries, the grounds of private houses, and town squares. Like Listed Buildings, Parks and Gardens are assigned one of three grades to indicate their significance.

This contains the building damage data described in the manuscript 'A Bayesian Approach for Earthquake Impact Modelling' (available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15791).The code used to generate the R objects are contained in https://github.com/hamishwp/ODDRIN. It compiles data from several sources including:Global Data Lab: J. Smits and I. Permanyer. The Subnational Human Development Database. Scientific data, 6(1):1–15, 2019.Vs30: D. C. Heath, D. J. Wald, C. B. Worden, E. M. Thompson, and G. M. Smoczyk. A global hybrid VS 30 map with a topographic slope–based default and regional map insets. Earthquake Spectra, 36(3):1570–1584, 2020.Earthquake frequency: K. Johnson, M. Villani, K. Bayliss, C. Brooks, S. Chandrasekhar, T. Chartier, Y. Chen, J. Garcia-Pelaez, R. Gee, R. Styron, A. Rood, M. Simionato, and M. Pagani. Global Earthquake Model (GEM) seismic hazard map (version 2023.1 - June 2023). GEM https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8409647, 2023.Income Inequality: F. Alvaredo, A. B. Atkinson, T. Piketty, and E. Saez. World Inequality Database, 2022. URL http://wid.world/data.Copernicus Building Damage Footprints: Copernicus Emergency Management Service. Copernicus emergency management service - mapping, 2012. URL https://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping. The European Commission.UNITAR/UNOSAT Building Damage Footprints: UNITAR/UNOSAT. UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme – UNOSAT, 2023. URL https://unosat.org/products/.WorldPop Population: A. J. Tatem. WorldPop, open data for spatial demography. Scientific Data, 4(1):1–4, 2017. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.4.Bing Building Footprints: Microsoft. Global ML Building Footprints, 2022. URL https://github.com/microsoft/GlobalMLBuildingFootprints. Accessed:2024-06-17.Shakemap: D. J. Wald, B. C. Worden, V. Quitoriano, and K. L. Pankow. ShakeMap manual: Technical manual, user’s guide, and software guide. Technical Report 12-A1, United States Geological Survey, 2005.