Ordnance Survey OpenData products (2024)

CDR Group is an Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner, licensed to sell Ordnance Survey data and provide services for users of digital mapping products covering all of Great Britain*. The following products were first made freely available under the OS OpenData™ programme on 1st April 2010. There have since been some additions and removals.

These products are covered by theOpen Government Licence. You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under this licence freely and flexibly, with only a few conditions. Click here for the PDF of the licence.

There are numerous products (more being added) now available to download directly from the Ordnance Survey website, where you will find more information and guidance. They are free to view, download and use for commercial, educational and personal purposes. Please click here for more information.

CDR has responded to customer requirements to provide a professional service to manage and supply the data, configured ready for use in MapInfo for a small administrative charge on an annual basis. The costs reflect the amount of data and the frequency of updates supplied in the year. You will find User Guides for each product on the Ordnance Survey web pages, if you wish to do this yourselves.

The following products have been made available:

OS OpenMap - Local®
GB Overview Maps
MiniScale®
1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster
Boundary-Line™ and GB Counties
Code-Point® Open
OS Terrain 50®
OS VectorMap® District
OS Open Zoomstack
OS Open Linked Identifiers
OS Open Rivers
OS Open Roads
OS Open Names

Ordnance Survey OpenData products (1)

OS OpenMap - Local®

OS Street View®
OS Street View® has now been withdrawn and replaced with:

OS OpenMap Local
Street level mapping available in both raster and vector formats. Each map image represents a 5 x 5 km area or 'tile' for a nominal 1:10,000 scale map. Shows clear street-level detail, including building outlines, woodland and water on a static map backdrop. Key buildings, such as hospitals, schools and major facilities are highlighted, to give greater insight into land use

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GB Overview Maps

Ordnance Survey's simplest maps of the British Isles. 2 versions available as tif image files. This is ideal as an initial map for your GIS. It highlights Britain while showing neighbouring countries of Europe.

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MiniScale®

OS MiniScale is a small-scale data product designed for use within desktop graphic applications. Choose the map that’s right for you. MiniScale downloads include files for both GIS users and graphic designers - tif, ai and eps. There is a map highlighting roads and cities, and another with terrain to the fore. Indeed, there are 5 different tif files.

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1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster

Get the regional view of towns and villages, roads and places of interest. The 1:250,000 Scale map base combines key features to make this the ideal cartographic backdrop for overlaying business information. This small-scale product gives an excellent overview of the country. Supplied as 56 tif images representing 100 x 100 km tiles covering Great Britain.

Features and benefits
Shows all cities, towns and many villages, as well as features in the Ordnance Survey Road Map series, including all motorways and A and B roads, enabling simple route planning.
High resolution for excellent image clarity.

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Boundary-Line™

From Parliamentary constituencies to council wards and Parishes, Boundary-Line™ maps every administrative boundary in detail for you. Boundary-Line™ is a specialist 1:10 000 scale boundaries dataset.
The information is represented as vector digital data. The boundary information is updated twice a year, in May and October. The May release contains the boundaries that become live in the first week of May, in the year of release. The October release contains the May boundaries plus additional information.

Features and boundaries incorporated in Boundary-Line

County - The named county, district, district ward, civil parish, county electoral division (ED).
European constituencies - The named European region.
Greater London Authority - The GLA, GLA Assembly constituency, London borough, London borough ward.
Metropolitan districts - The named metropolitan district, metropolitan district ward, civil parish where appropriate.
Scottish parliamentary electoral region - The named Scottish Parliamentary electoral region, Scottish parliamentary constituency.
Unitary authorities - The named unitary authority, unitary authority ward or county ED as appropriate, civil parish where appropriate, together with community in Wales.
Welsh Assembly Electoral Region - The named Welsh Assembly electoral region, Welsh assembly constituency.
Westminster constituencies - The named Westminster constituency.
Extent of the realm - Low water mark or seaward boundary extension.
High water mark
Unique identifiers - For administrative areas, polygons and links.
Area measurements
Definitive names
Census codes
Available as component features or by geography

Historic County Boundaries

As an addition to the core Boundary-Line product, you can download data showing historical county boundaries from the late 19th Century. This is ideal for historians who need to analyse old census records and archives. Due to the changes in administrative governance, today's county boundaries do not give a complete coverage of Great Britain.

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Code-Point® Open

With Code-Point Open you get coverage of the 1.7 million postcodes in Great Britain, updated quarterly, with an accurate depiction of all live postcodes in GB. Code-Point® Open provides a precise geographical location for each postcode unit. Each postcode unit, such as KY12 8UP or PO14 2RS, represents an average of fifteen adjoining addresses.

Features and benefits
An economical planning or marketing tool for users not requiring individual addresses.
Has fewer attributes than the Premium Code-Point product.
The geographical location for Code-Point is taken from Ordnance Survey's AddressBase data.
To give you extra analytical power, Code-Point Open includes NHS authority and administrative unit codes.

GB coverage only. The data is supplied as a csv file for each postcode area. Pre-processing is required for use in a GIS.

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OS Terrain 50®

OS Terrain 50® is a new digital height product for Great Britain, depicting a height value every 50 metres in a grid covering the whole of Great Britain (replacing LandForm Panorama). Make 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.
Get 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.

It is supplied both as a set of 50m gridded digital terrain model (OS Terrain 50 grid) and 10m contours and spot heights (OS Terrain 50 contours).

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OS VectorMap® District

This is a fairly new product, released in April 2013, to meet the mid-scale mapping requirements of users. It is available in both vector and raster formats.
Show enough detail to give the lie of the land while avoiding overwhelming detail. OS VectorMap District lets you display just the map layers you need. Designed for a nominal 1:50,000 scale map

Available for the whole of Great Britain or England, or Scotland or Wales or by 100km OS grid square.

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OS Open Zoomstack

OS Open Zoomstack makes OS open data more accessible, customisable and easier to use. It provides a single, customisable map of Great Britain to be used at national and local levels. There’s no need to crunch 1000’s of data files – we’ve done it for you. The data is available in just one single file. It’s provided in easy-to-use formats to help you get started quickly.
The data is compatible with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), web, mobile and offline systems. It’s highly customisable, giving you the flexibility you need.
OS Open Zoomstack gives you consistent mapping content across the whole of Great Britain. Zoom out for an overview or zoom in to get street level detail. From the Scilly Isles to Shetland you get a seamless mapping experience.
By combining elements of OS OpenData, OS Open Zoomstack offers a variety of mapping features, from local buildings to contours, from greenspaces to foreshore. Whether you are mapping urban or rural environments you will find the content you need – and you can customise it too.

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OS Open Linked Identifiers

OS Open Linked Identifiers is a dataset containing the authoritative relationships between Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs), Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) and Topographic Object Identifiers (TOIDs). Watch the OS Open Linked Identifiers introduction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aemr9mogN4U&feature=youtu.be

Connecting addresses with road features enables more related data to be joined together which simplifies a number of valuable workflows. Linking these features to graphical elements of OS MasterMap products enables better visualisation of the data related to them.
Link data related to an address with its building footprint. Validate an addresses UPRN with the name of the road that accesses it. Validate a streets USRN with the name of the road it relates to.

The relationships UPRN and USRN are provided by the bodies responsible for the identifier schemes; and these are spatially matched to OS MasterMap features by Ordnance Survey. This means you can have confidence you're accessing an authoritative source of these relationships.

OS Open Linked Identifiers is updated every six weeks soon after AddressBase Premium release. Available in CSV file format for easy ingestion into database products.

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OS Open Rivers

Understand how water bodies and watercourses in Great Britain join up. OS Open Rivers lets you answer questions like ‘which rivers would be affected by a toxic discharge from this site?’
For 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.

OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144,000 km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals. Contains the attributes of watercourse name; watercourse type; direction of water flow.

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OS Open Roads

Get a high-level view of the road network, from motorways to country lanes. OS Open Roads contains minor roads as well as trunk roads. The only roads not shown are private roads and shorter cul-de-sacs.

Updated twice a year, this dataset contains the following attributes: Motorways, A-roads, B-roads, road classification, road name, primary route information, motorway junction information, links to the premium OS MasterMap Highways Network products.

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OS Open Names

A comprehensive dataset containing the names and locations of named places across Great Britain​. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of settlements, streets and postcodes in Great Britain in one file (supplied as 820 csv files). The dataset contains over 870,000 named and numbered roads, nearly 44,000 settlements and over 1.6 million postcodes, all matched/mapped to the National Grid.
OS Open Names contains place and street name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives.

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CDR Group is able to offer you a professional service to manage and supply any of the Open Data products, configured ready for use in MapInfo for a small administrative charge on an annual basis.

The OS Open Data products are covered by the Open Government Licence (OGL), which allows you to:

copy, distribute and transmit the data;
adapt the data; and
exploit the data commercially, whether by sub-licensing it, combining it with other data, or including it in your own product or application.

We simply ask that you acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statement:

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2022
Where you use Code-Point Open data, you must also use the following attribution statements:
Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and Database right 2022
Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2022

You must:
ensure that you do not use the Data in a way that suggests the Data Provider endorses you or your use of the Data;
ensure that you do not misrepresent the Data or its source.

* CDR is also an Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland Licensed Partner (now part of Land & Property Services). Different data products cover Northern Ireland.

Contact the sales team at CDR Group for any further help or advice.

Tel: 01433 621282
Email: sales@cdrgroup.co.uk

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