OS NGD Land

What layers are in OS NGD Land?

There are five feature types in the OS NGD Land theme. All of them have the same geometry as their equivalent features in OS MasterMap Topography Layer but all with new OS NGD attribution.

Land

Land Point

Landform

Landform Line

Landform Point

This is a set of polygons, the same as the Land theme in OS MasterMap Topography Layer, that cover classifications such as Arable or Grazing Land, Residential Garden, Made Surface, Bare earth or Grass, Mixed Trees.

These are point features that represent single positioned trees.

These are slope polygons, now in their own Feature Type, representing Artificial Slopes for Transport, Built Environment, Water or Flood Controlling; Burial Mounds; Cliff.

These are the lines that define the top, or side and bottom of the slopes and cliffs.

These are landscape features such as Caves, Shake Holes, Adits, Pot Holes, Burial Mounds, Natural Arches or Swallow Holes.

What formats does the OS NGD data come in?

The OS NGD Land data comes in two formats, CSV and GeoPackage (GPKG)

• The GeoPackage format comes ready to load into the GIS package of the users choice with different gpkg files for each layer.

• The CSV format is more suited for loading into a database. It has all of the same layers in csv format and all the same attribution as the GeoPackage, however instead of storing the geometry in a GIS ready format, it is stored as a POLYGON, POINT or LINESTRING attribute with all of the vertices stored as co-ordinate pairs in the text file.

What is new the attribution?

The attribution has changed from the OS Master Maps Topography Layer product, largely due to the differences in the intended use for the data.

• All OS NGD data has the new OSID attribution

• Features have TOIDS if they existed in the previous OS MasterMap family. In addition they have a version date, change type, change data and theme

• OS NGD Land now has Land Use and Land Cover attribution as well as the source of the evidence

• Land Cover and Land Use is categorised into an a/b hierarchy giving a broad category and then a specific group

• Land also indicates the capture specification allowing the user to understand the RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) that the feature was captured at

Where has the new attribution come from?

Ordnance Survey surveyors and remote sensing teams have been capturing and maintaining information on land cover, land use and a more detailed level of description for over 10 years.

This data has then been transformed to match attribution for existing products, such as OS MasterMap Topography Layer

However, in the OS NGD data it is being published at the original, more granular level

Links that may be useful:

OS NGD Documentation Platform | osngd

OS Data HubOrdnanceSurvey

OS Select+Build | OS productsOrdnance Survey

This content has been developed from what was originally a Lightning Talk PowerPoint slide set. These slides are available to PSGA members to view and download from the PSGA members area of the OS website