Covering a range of greenspaces in urban and rural areas including playing fields, sports’ facilities, play areas and allotments.What OS Open Greenspace provides you withComprehensive Open dataset of greenspaceFinding greenspaces has never been easier. Britain’s most comprehensive Open dataset of greenspace provides the foundation for you to help create greener and healthier communities.Understand locations and access pointsUnderstand the location of public parks, playing fields, sports facilities, play areas and allotments, along with access points for entering and exiting urban and rural greenspaces.Green communitiesBritain’s most comprehensive Open dataset of greenspaces underpins a range of apps, products and innovations - providing the foundation to help create greener and healthier communities.Planning for healthIncorporated as a layer into SHAPE, the dataset has been used alongside asset location data (GPs, pharmacies, schools) and indicator data (population and deprivation), to help inform and support the strategic planning of services and physical assets across the health economy.Vital in emergenciesA vital tool in helping our emergency services, OS Open Greenspace includes site use and access points, making it quicker to get to emergency situations.
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. Cultural Facility - A feature that is deemed to be of particular interest to societyEducation 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).Emergency Services - Emergency services are organizations which ensure public safety and health by addressing different emergencies.Medical Facility - This theme includes sites which focus on the provision of secondary medical care services.Religious Building - A place where members of a religious group congregate for worship.Retail - A feature that sells to the general public finished goods.Road Transport - This theme includes three types of sites: Bus Stations, Coach Stations and Road user services.Sports and Leisure Facility - A feature where many different sports can be played.Water Transport - This theme includes sites involved in the transfer of passengers and or goods onto vessels for transport across water.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 10/2021
Sites registered as Hazardous Information relating to Hazardous Substance Consent Applications. These are submitted by Hazardous Substance Authorities, and the dataset used to track the progress of these applications within specified timescales as directed by Central Government.
Ordnance Survey ® OpenMap - Local Functional Sites are polygon features that represent the area or extent of certain types of function or activity across England, Wales and Scotland. Functional Sites are classified into five main themes:
Air Transport - This theme includes all sites associated with movement of passengers and goods by air, or where aircraft take off and land. Includes: Airfield, Airport, Helicopter Station, Heliport. Education - 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, Special Needs Education, Non State Primary Education, Further Education, Higher or University Education, Non State Secondary Education Medical Care - This theme includes sites which focus on the provision of secondary medical care services. Includes: Medical Care Accommodation, Hospital, Hospice Road Transport - This theme includes: Bus Stations, Coach Stations, Road user services. Water 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 Functional Sites 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 Important Buildings - buildings that fall within the extent of a Functional Site. Present accurate information consistently with other available open data products. The currency of the data is 04/2025
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The goal of Ordnance Survey’s GeoSemantics team is to provide both an explicit representation of our organisation's knowledge and a set of increasingly automated operations that allow different datasets to be combined together, by representing them in a semantically meaningful way via ontologies. Ontologies contain a set of knowledge about a domain, such as topography.
We are building a Topographic ontology, a staged process where we are building ontologies of the sub-domains within topography. These are updated as we learn more about ontology authoring, so the latest versions can be found here, while previous versions are still available for backwards compatability. So far we have built ontologies describing Hydrology, Buildings and Places and Administrative Geography, along with modules that contain terms in common. The Administrative Geography ontology also includes RDF triple data.
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Linked Data is a growing part of the Web where data is published on the Web and then linked to other published data in much the same way that web pages are interlinked using hypertext.
OS Linked Data site takes some of the OS OpenData products and produces them in machine readable languages and publishes them in this easy to use website for all users to enjoy.
This dataset is published as Open Data.OS Terrain® 50 is an open height dataset of contours with spot heights, breaklines, coastline, lakes, ridges and formlines for Great Britain.What OS Terrain 50 provides you withModel wind direction and lines of sightMake better decisions about where to locate wind turbines and mobile phone masts. OS Terrain 50 lets you model wind direction and lines of sight at your desk, meaning fewer site visits.Plan landscape defencesGet the bigger picture about flood risk, soil erosion and pollution. By showing steep hillside gradients, OS Terrain 50 helps you plan flood defences and safeguard the landscape.More engaging mapsWith the contours version of OS Terrain 50, you can shade in hills to show their height. This extra sense of depth is ideal for walking maps and apps.Surface model entire landscapesGet an accurate, uncluttered view of the terrain with the grid version of OS Terrain 50. Its 50 metre post spacing gives you a surface model of the entire landscape, including major roads, large lakes and estuaries.Take account of tidesThe contours dataset also includes mean high and low water boundaries.
The OS MasterMap Sites Layer dataset is intended to provide a nationally consistent representation of polygon features that represent the operational extent of certain types of function or activity. Additional access and routing points to the sites are provided where discernible.
Ward boundaries for all London boroughs suitable for use in i-Trees Canopy tool.
Based on Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line data available from the OpenData website. Data has been converted to latitude/longitude values (WGS84 geographic coordinate system) and saved in shapefile format, suitable for use on the i-Trees website.
The i-Trees tool offers a quick and easy way to produce a statistically valid estimate of land cover types e.g. tree cover, using aerial images available in Google Maps. All that is required is an internet connection and a shapefile which defines your study area.
We recommend using the boundary of your ward as a study area and this can be obtained by downloading the zip file for your Borough below. Each zip file contains individual shapefiles for every ward in that area. Each shapefile requires four different files in order to work correctly so please ensure these are all extracted from the zip file before trying to upload on the i-Trees website. For example the shapefile for Brockley ward in Lewisham consists of the following files:
Slick, quick vector maps for use as a customisable, contextual base, with a focus on web and mobile apps.
Benefit from unrivalled levels of detail in your web or mobile app. OS Vector Tile API contains OS MasterMap Topography Layer including building heights.
Integrate Ordnance Survey's up-to-date, detailed maps in your applications, enabling you to make location-based decisions with confidence. You can customise the content and style to make your perfect map.
Welcome to OS’s Data Catalogue, which provides Open Geospatial Consortium "Catalogue Service for the Web" (CSW) access to information about Ordnance Survey (OS) datasets, services (including APIs), and series.
At present, this is mainly used to feed data.gov.uk for other information about OS please go to our website (os.uk) and data hub (osdatahub.os.uk).
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National Library of Scotland Historic Maps APIHistorical Maps of Great Britain for use in mashups and ArcGIS Onlinehttps://nls.tileserver.com/https://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/index.htmlThis seamless historic map can be:embedded in your own websiteused for research purposesused as a backdrop for your own markers or geographic dataused to create derivative work (such as OpenStreetMap) from it.The mapping is based on out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.The map can be directly opened in a web browser by opening the Internet address: https://nls.tileserver.com/The map is ready for natural zooming and panning with finger pinching and dragging.How to embed the historic map in your websiteThe easiest way of embedding the historical map in your website is to copy < paste this HTML code into your website page. Simple embedding (try: hello.html):You can automatically position the historic map to open at a particular place or postal address by appending the name as a "q" parameter - for example: ?q=edinburgh Embedding with a zoom to a place (try: placename.html):You can automatically position the historic map to open at particular latitude and longitude coordinates: ?lat=51.5&lng=0&zoom=11. There are many ways of obtaining geographic coordinates. Embedding with a zoom to coordinates (try: coordinates.html):The map can also automatically detect the geographic location of the visitor to display the place where you are right now, with ?q=auto Embedding with a zoom to coordinates (try: auto.html):How to use the map in a mashupThe historic map can be used as a background map for your own data. You can place markers on top of it, or implement any functionality you want. We have prepared a simple to use JavaScript API to access to map from the popular APIs like Google Maps API, Microsoft Bing SDK or open-source OpenLayers or KHTML. To use our map in your mashups based on these tools you should include our API in your webpage: ... ...
This dataset is published as Open DataWhat OS Open Rivers provides you withSolve challengesModel simple what-if scenarios. OS Open Rivers lets you answer questions like ‘which rivers would be affected by a toxic discharge from this site?’Water quality dataFor sharing water quality data, this is ideal. OS Open Rivers lets you tag information with the river IDs used by environment agencies so everybody can use it.Comprehensive map dataOS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144,000 km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals.
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Archaeologically Significant Built Heritage in Ireland. Published by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Available under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0).This contains records taken from the Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) dataset, updated in 2018 and published from the National Monuments Service Sites and Monuments Record. The ASI has focused on recording monuments dating from before AD 1700, along with more recent sites selected according to their interest or merit. Locations of monuments within 2km of the coastline were extracted from the ASI dataset by Land Use Consultants (LUC).
The records were downloaded from the data source URL in CSV format. The table included latitude/longitude locations for each record. The table was converted into ESRI shapefile and the records within the 2km coastal zone were extracted.
Since its inception in 1963, the Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) has focused on recording monuments dating from before AD 1700, along with more recent sites selected according to their interest or merit. A Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) was issued for all counties in the State between 1984 and 1992. The SMR is a manual containing a numbered list of all certain and possible monuments accompanied by 6-inch Ordnance Survey maps (at a reduced scale). An Urban Archaeology Survey was completed in 1995 and contained reports on historic towns dating to before AD 1700 with a view to delineating zones of archaeological potential. Both the SMR and the Urban Archaeological Survey reports were issued to all planning authorities. The SMR formed the basis for issuing the Record of Monuments and Places (RMP) - the statutory list of recorded monuments established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994. The RMP was issued for each county between 1995 and 1998 in a similar format to the existing SMR. However, the RMP differs from the earlier lists in that, as defined in the Act, only monuments with known locations or places where there are believed to be monuments are included. The large archive and supporting database are managed by the National Monuments Service and the records are continually updated and supplemented as additional monuments are discovered.
Please note that the centre point of each record is not indicative of the geographic extent of the monument. The existing point centroids were digitised relative to the OSI 6-inch mapping and the move from this older IG-referenced series to the larger-scale ITM mapping will necessitate revisions. The accuracy of the derived ITM co-ordinates is limited to the OS 6-inch scale and errors may ensue should the user apply the co-ordinates to larger scale maps. Records that do not refer to 'monuments' are designated 'Redundant record' and are retained in the archive as they may relate to features that were once considered to be monuments but which on investigation proved otherwise. Redundant records may also refer to duplicate records or errors in the data structure of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland....
OS Open Greenspace depicts the location and extent of spaces such as parks and sports facilities that are likely to be accessible to the public. Where appropriate, it also includes access points to show how people get into these sites. Its primary purpose is to enable members of the public to find and access green spaces near them for exercise and recreation. Find out more about the uses and case studies surrounding Greenspace on the dedicated OS Open Greenspace webpage, and technical information about the greenspaces it contains and how to use them in our detailed specification.Who’s using OS Open Greenspace?Innovators - Britain’s most comprehensive Open dataset of greenspaces underpins a range of apps, products and innovations - providing the foundation to help create greener and healthier communities.Public sector (Public Health England) - Incorporated as a layer into SHAPE, the dataset has been used alongside asset location data (GPs, pharmacies, schools) and indicator data (population and deprivation), to help inform and support the strategic planning of services and physical assets across the health economy.Emergency services - A vital tool in helping our emergency services, OS Open Greenspace includes site use and access points, making it quicker to get to emergency situations.
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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.uk
Contains Ordnance Survey data Crown copyright and database right [2019-]. Free OS OpenData Map Downloads | Free Vector & Raster Map Data | OS Data Hub
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Definitions of key terms related to this dataset can be found in the Open Data Portal Glossary: https://ukpowernetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/glossary/
The OS MasterMap Sites Layer shows you the main points of access to key sites such as schools, hospitals and train stations quickly and easily in emergency situations. You can also identify and reduce the impact of planned works or events on key sites.
Sites Layer provides a detailed view of the extents and access locations of important locations in Great Britain. Airports, schools, universities, hospitals, railway stations, coach and bus stations, ferry terminals and energy production and distributions sites are all represented as polygon features, along with their name, access locations and routing information.
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World Heritage Sites are described by UNESCO as exceptional places of ‘outstanding universal value’ and ‘belonging to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located’. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to protect and preserve such sites through an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, drawn up in 1972 Scottish Ministers identify and put forward sites to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for nomination. This dataset includes both the legal designation and buffer zone boundaries of the World Heritage Sites in Scotland enscribed by UNESCO as well as non-statutory sensitive areas for planning advice. Once a World Heritage Site is inscribed, under the Convention, member states have a duty to protect, conserve and present such sites for future generations.St Kilda: created from Ordnance Survey Boundary Line (originally by Scottish Natural Heritage) Edinburgh, Old and New Towns: created by onscreen digitisation against 1:2500 Ordnance Survey Landline from original georeferenced image from Management Plan. The Heart of Neolithic Orkney: site boundary created from original scheduled areas at 1:10,000. Site buffer zone and sensitive area created by onscreen digitisation against ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping. New Lanark: Site boundary and buffer zone created by onscreen digitisation against georeferenced maps from Management Plan at 1:25,000. Antonine Wall: site boundary and buffer created by onscreen digitisation against Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping. Forth Bridge: site boundary created by onscreen digitisation against Ordnance Survey 1:1,250 mapping.
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This Archaeological Survey of Ireland dataset is published from the database of the National Monuments Service Sites and Monuments Record (SMR). This dataset also can be viewed and interrogated through the online Historic Environment Viewer: https://maps.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment.A Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) was issued for all counties in the State between 1984 and 1992. The SMR is a manual containing a numbered list of certain and possible monuments accompanied by 6-inch Ordnance Survey maps (at a reduced scale). The SMR formed the basis for issuing the Record of Monuments and Places (RMP) - the statutory list of recorded monuments established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994. The RMP was issued for each county between 1995 and 1998 in a similar format to the existing SMR. The RMP differs from the earlier lists in that, as defined in the Act, only monuments with known locations or places where there are believed to be monuments are included.The large Archaeological Survey of Ireland archive and supporting database are managed by the National Monuments Service and the records are continually updated and supplemented as additional monuments are discovered. On the Historic Environment viewer an area around each monument has been shaded, the scale of which varies with the class of monument. This area does not define the extent of the monument, nor does it define a buffer area beyond which ground disturbance should not take place – it merely identifies an area of land within which it is expected that the monument will be located. It is not a constraint area for screening – such must be set by the relevant authority who requires screening for their own purposes. This data has been released for download as Open Data under the DPER Open Data Strategy and is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0Please note that the centre point of each record is not indicative of the geographic extent of the monument. The existing point centroids were digitised relative to the OSI 6-inch mapping and the move from this older IG-referenced series to the larger-scale ITM mapping will necessitate revisions. The accuracy of the derived ITM co-ordinates is limited to the OS 6-inch scale and errors may ensue should the user apply the co-ordinates to larger scale maps. Records that do not refer to 'monuments' are designated 'Redundant record' and are retained in the archive as they may relate to features that were once considered to be monuments but which on investigation proved otherwise. Redundant records may also refer to duplicate records or errors in the data structure of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.This dataset is provided for re-use in a number of ways and the technical options are outlined below. For a live and current view of the data, please use the web services or the data extract tool in the Historic Environment Viewer. The National Monuments Service also provide an Open Data snapshot of its national dataset in CSV as a bulk data download. Users should consult the National Monument Service website https://www.archaeology.ie/ for further information and guidance on the National Monument Act(s) and the legal significance of this dataset.Open Data Bulk Data Downloads (version date: 23/06/2023)The Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) is provided as a national download in Comma Separated Value (CSV) format. This format can be easily integrated into a number of software clients for re-use and analysis. The Longitude and Latitude coordinates are also provided to aid its re-use in web mapping systems, however, the ITM easting/northings coordinates should be quoted for official purposes. For a live and current view of the data, please use the web services or the query tool in the Historic Environment Viewer. ESRI Shapefiles of the SMR points and SMRZone polygons are also available. The SMRZones represent an area around each monument, the scale of which varies with the class of monument. This area does not define the extent of the monument, nor does it define a buffer area beyond which ground disturbance should not take place – it merely identifies an area of land within which it is expected that the monument will be located. It is not a constraint area for screening – such must be set by the relevant authority who requires screening for their own purposes.
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Time series data for Ramsar sites. A Ramsar site is the land listed as a Wetland of International Importance under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (the Ramsar Convention) 1973. Data supplied has the status of "Listed". The data does not include "proposed" sites. Boundaries are mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap. Attribution statement: Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].
Covering a range of greenspaces in urban and rural areas including playing fields, sports’ facilities, play areas and allotments.What OS Open Greenspace provides you withComprehensive Open dataset of greenspaceFinding greenspaces has never been easier. Britain’s most comprehensive Open dataset of greenspace provides the foundation for you to help create greener and healthier communities.Understand locations and access pointsUnderstand the location of public parks, playing fields, sports facilities, play areas and allotments, along with access points for entering and exiting urban and rural greenspaces.Green communitiesBritain’s most comprehensive Open dataset of greenspaces underpins a range of apps, products and innovations - providing the foundation to help create greener and healthier communities.Planning for healthIncorporated as a layer into SHAPE, the dataset has been used alongside asset location data (GPs, pharmacies, schools) and indicator data (population and deprivation), to help inform and support the strategic planning of services and physical assets across the health economy.Vital in emergenciesA vital tool in helping our emergency services, OS Open Greenspace includes site use and access points, making it quicker to get to emergency situations.