As of the July 2021 basemap update, the raster basemaps (OS Open Carto, Background, Greyscale and Greyscale Labels) have now entered Mature Support. These four services will no longer be updated but will remain available to use for the foreseeable future. We encourage users to switch to the new GB Vector Basemaps. Read more in our blog.The OS Open 'Background' map service is designed to be used as background mapping providing a seamless map view from small to large scales with a consistent cartographic representation. The sources of data are Ordnance Survey Vector Map District data for small and mid-scales and Open Map Local for larger scales.The currency of the data is; Vector Map District - 05/2021 Open Map Local - 04/2021The coverage of the map service is GB. The map projection is British National Grid. The service is appropriate for viewing down to a scale of approximately 1:5,000. Updated: 17/07/2021

This dataset is published as Open DataAn open dataset of all Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) within OS MasterMap Highways Network, with an associated simplified line geometry representing the geographic extent of each USRN.What OS Open USRN provides you with:Essential identifiers for streetsOur Open USRN product contains USRNs across GB. They are the authoritative identifier assigned to and uniquely identifying streets and are essential for managing Great Britain's Highways. Once its allocated to a street record, a USRN will never change or be reused.Authoritative sourceThe USRNs in OS Open USRN are allocated by Highway or Road Authorities and Highway Bodies, under their statutory responsibility to maintain this information. This means you can have confidence you’re accessing an authoritative source of these identifiers.Complete USRN dataAll USRNs present in OS MasterMap Highways Network, are also included in this product – so you can be sure you’re not missing out.Share and link dataOS Open USRN will enable you to start sharing and linking together information about USRNs which you can visualise with a location.

This dataset is published as Open DataAn open dataset of all Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) within OS MasterMap Highways Network, with an associated simplified line geometry representing the geographic extent of each USRN.What OS Open USRN provides you with:Essential identifiers for streetsOur Open USRN product contains USRNs across GB. They are the authoritative identifier assigned to and uniquely identifying streets and are essential for managing Great Britain's Highways. Once its allocated to a street record, a USRN will never change or be reused.Authoritative sourceThe USRNs in OS Open USRN are allocated by Highway or Road Authorities and Highway Bodies, under their statutory responsibility to maintain this information. This means you can have confidence you’re accessing an authoritative source of these identifiers.Complete USRN dataAll USRNs present in OS MasterMap Highways Network, are also included in this product – so you can be sure you’re not missing out.Share and link dataOS Open USRN will enable you to start sharing and linking together information about USRNs which you can visualise with a location.

As of the July 2021 basemap update, the raster basemaps (OS Open Carto, Background, Greyscale and Greyscale Labels) have now entered Mature Support. These four services will no longer be updated but will remain available to use for the foreseeable future. We encourage users to switch to the new GB Vector Basemaps. Read more in our blog.The OS Open Greyscale map service is designed to be used as background mapping providing a seamless map view from small to large scales with a consistent cartographic representation. The sources of data are Ordnance Survey Vector Map District and Open Map Local. The currency of the data is; Vector Map District - 05/2021Open Map Local - 04/2021The coverage of the map service is GB. The map projection is British National Grid. The service is appropriate for viewing down to a scale of approximately 1:2,500 Updated: 17/07/2021

The OS Open Greyscale map service is designed to be used as background mapping providing a seamless map view from small to large scales with a consistent cartographic representation. The sources of data are Ordnance Survey Strategi data for small an

A comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain

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Source:

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenNames

Licence:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Great Britain's (England, Scotland, Wales) rivers, watercourses and water bodies represented as a connected network, polygons and/or lines. This data is often used for environmental monitoring and risk assessment, navigation, statistical analysis. OS Rivers Data includes freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries, lakes and canals as well as water flowing through aqueducts, tunnels and underground. Additional attribution, including name, type, height, flow direction, gradient, length, width and source is available in various OS data products. OS Rivers Data is supplied in a number of OS data products, including: OS MasterMap Water Network Layer, OS Open Rivers, OS MasterMap Topography Layer, VectorMap Local and VectorMap District. Small-scale cartographic representations are also availble in OS catpgraphic products. All data is collected by Ordnance Survey. Culvert data within OS MasterMap Water Network Layer is sourced from Scottish Local Authorities. as part of their role as the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain.

This collection of polygonal data has been derived from the 1st Edition 25" (1:2500) Ordnance Survey County Series mapping which was surveyed between 1869-1874. The data consists of features such as trackways and earthwork features which were mapped by the OS but could not be included within the digital polygons as this would impact upon the acreage calculations. Instead these features have been mapped independently. The polygons has been generated from Modern Ordnance Survey Topographic Layer and have been altered to reflect the historical mapping source. This data was created as part of the AHRC's Deep Mapping Estate Archives project in January 2022 using ESRI ArcPro 2.9.1. The data has been imported into the ArcGIS online system as a shapefile and is available for public use under the Non-Commercial Open Government Licence.

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/boundary-line#technical

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Source:

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine

Licence:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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Definition Extract of Ordnance Survey's Code-Point® Open product filtered for London Borough of Barnet coverage. Data has been processed from the .csv schema filtering on the administrative district code, with administrative district and ward names appended for ease of use Postcodes do not have an exact match to administrative boundaries, see the Ordnance Survey product support page for full definition. Purpose These datasets have been created as general resource for the council. The information is sourced from Ordnance Survey Open Data products and may be used more widely subject to the Open Government Licence (v3). Disclaimer This dataset is not the primary source and may not reflect the latest version or scope of the original product. You should assess whether using the original product directly is more appropriate for your purpose. Acknowledgements Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024 Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and Database right 2024 Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2024

In the OS NGD Boundaries Collection, the mean high water (springs) mark is shown to the normal tidal limit (NTL). Areas of salt marsh, mudflats and so on often have extremely complicated tide lines. For ease of digitising and to reduce data volumes, mean high water may be generalised in these areas (not Scotland). The mean high water (springs) mark is represented in the OS NGD Boundaries Collection by a polyline feature. The mean high water (springs) mark is subject to continuous change, but the captured alignment of a tide line is a snapshot on one day. It is not practical to revise tide lines frequently.

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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/boundary-line#technical

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Source:

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine

Licence:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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Counties were formerly administrative units across the whole UK. Due to various administrative restructurings however, the only administrative areas still referred to as counties are the nonmetropolitan (shire) counties of England. The English metropolitan counties, although no longer administrative units, are also used for statistical purposes.

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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/boundary-line#technical

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Source:

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine

Licence:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

This dataset contains polylines depicting non-woodland linear tree and shrub features in Cornwall and much of Devon, derived from lidar data collected by the Tellus South West project. Data from a lidar (light detection and ranging) survey of South West England was used with existing open source GIS datasets to map non-woodland linear features consisting of woody vegetation. The output dataset is the product of several steps of filtering and masking the lidar data using GIS landscape feature datasets available from the Tellus South West project (digital terrain model (DTM) and digital surface model (DSM)), the Ordnance Survey (OS VectorMap District and OpenMap Local, to remove buildings) and the Forestry Commission (Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory Great Britain 2015, to remove woodland parcels). The dataset was tiled as 20 x 20 km shapefiles, coded by the bottom-left 10 km hectad name. Ground-truthing suggests an accuracy of 73.2% for hedgerow height classes.

Digital map boundaries of areas within Lincolnshire. Themes include Administrative, Electoral, Statistical, and Health. These boundary data sets are sourced from Ordnance Survey (OS) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). They come under the terms of the UK Govt. Open Government Licence (OGL). You can use any of the boundary data sets for any purpose, but you must use the following copyright statements when you reproduce or use this material: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right [year]

Registration Offices in Lincolnshire have their own unique facilities and features. This dataset shows each office's location, address, and contact and booking details. Some other relevant details of each venue are included in the data. The details shown in this data are sourced from information published on the Lincolnshire County Council website (see the Source link). Some additional data from Ordnance Survey has been included. You can freely re-use this data for any purpose. Please attribute as: Contains public sector information licensed from Lincolnshire County Council under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This Ordnance Survey copyright statement must be shown: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Data identifying the location of all the postcodes in Cambridgeshire. Extracted from OS Code-Point data® published by Ordnance Survey.

If data is used, please acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statements:

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2016)

Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right (2016)

Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right (2016)

For more details about licencing go to: https://certificates.theodi.org/en/datasets/352/certificate

Source: Code-Point® Open (Ordnance Survey) https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

All data is correct as of download date: 06/09/2016

Original purpose

This coastline boundary dataset was originally derived for research on population proximity to the UK coast. It required adaptation of boundary files in order to prevent areas close to major rivers from being counted as ‘coastal’. With no single definition of what ‘coastal’ is, we took a decision to cut off the coastline where major estuaries/rivers narrowed to approximately 1km. The original publication that used this approach and informed the development of the dataset is cited below (Wheeler et al, 2012).

Please note therefore that this is a somewhat arbitrary definition of what is coastal, and you will need to make sure this definition is appropriate for your application for this to be useful.

Method & Data Format

• Original source data: UK Census 2011 Lower-layer Super Output Areas / Data Zones – full resolution / Mean High Water version.
• LSOA/DZ boundaries were dissolved to create outline boundary at Mean High Water.
• Major estuaries/rivers were manually truncated where they narrowed to approximately 1km width.
• Data are provided as a GeoJSON file
• Co-ordinate system is British National Grid (EPSG 27700)

Original data source & copyright

This boundary dataset was derived from Ordnance Survey/Office for National Statistics/Scottish Government data, under Open Government Licence. Its use/re-use is dependent on appropriate citation and acknowledgement of the original source data.

Licence: Adapted and redistributed under Open Government Licence: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Copyright statements to appear on any maps/publications containing these data:

Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2012

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012

Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (2012).

Citation and Attribution

The original source of the approach and methodology for this coastal definition should be cited as:

Wheeler, B.W., White, M., Stahl-Timmins, W., Depledge, M.H., 2012. Does living by the coast improve health and wellbeing? Health and Place 18: 5, 1198-1201. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.06.015

The boundary dataset requires the copyright statements as above to be stated on any publication/redistribution.

The adapted data are redistributed here under CC-BY Licence - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

OS Open Roads is a high-level view of the road network, from motorways to country lanes in Great Britain. The links represent an approximate central alignment of the road carriageway and include roads classified by the National or Local Highway authority.

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Source:

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/os-open-roads

Licence:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Introduction The dataset provides detailed information about UK Power Networks' Grid and Primary Sites. It includes key characteristics such as:

Spatial coordinates of each site Year commissioned Asset counts against each site Power transformer count Local authority information Winter and summer demand Transformer ratings

This data is useful for understanding the infrastructure and capacity of the electricity network across its regions.

Methodological Approach

Source: Various internal data domains - geospatial, asset, long term development statement; as well as openly available data from the Ordnance Survey and Office of National Statistics Manipulation: Various data characteristics were combined together using Functional Locations (FLOCs)

Quality Control Statement The data is provided "as is".

Assurance Statement The Open Data team has checked the data against source to ensure data accuracy and consistency. The data domain owners have checked their respective data aspects.

Other Contains data from Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Local Authority District (2022) to Grouped Local Authority District (2022) Lookup for EW - data.gov.ukContains Ordnance Survey data Crown copyright and database right [2019-]. Free OS OpenData Map Downloads | Free Vector & Raster Map Data | OS Data Hub

Download dataset information: Metadata (JSON)

Definitions of key terms related to this dataset can be found in the Open Data Portal Glossary: https://ukpowernetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/glossary/