OS Maps API
What is OS Maps API?
Get started for free and integrate OS’s up-to-date, detailed maps in your apps, enabling your customers to make location-based decisions with confidence, and removing the overhead of managing complex datasets yourself.
Choose the style that suites your use case best, whether you need the detail of OS MasterMap or our iconic Leisure maps. There are four styles available: Road, Outdoor, Light and Leisure. Each map style contains OS OpenData and Premium data layers.
OS Maps API serves pre-rendered raster tiles and is available in two projections: British National Grid for GB data and Web Mercator which is a global coordinate system.
You can request the maps using the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) standard or RESTful ZXY. WMTS is supported by most GIS software and ZXY is efficient for web mapping.
High-quality basemaps
Provides access to high-quality raster basemaps in different styles and projections.
Supports multiple access methods
Supports Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) and ZXY access methods.
Trace geometries
Trace over accurate and detailed OS MasterMap geometries.
Seamless integration
Enables developers to embed OS maps into applications, GIS platforms and websites.
Up-to-date mapping
Ensures that users always have access to the most current mapping data.
Reduced overheads
Reduces time and overheads by offering ready-to-use basemap layers.
Unleash the power of your own data
Connect the OS Maps API to your own geospatial data with the OS Power BI Map Visual.
Format: Raster tiles
Coverage: Great Britain
Update: 15 working days from each product refresh date
Things to remember for OS Maps API
You can:
Use as a basemap in GIS, web or mobile applications
Overlay your own data to give it geographic context
Trace over OS MasterMap Topography Layers (Premium data) detailed geometries
View the whole of Great Britain in unrivalled, elegant detail
Access the iconic 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster (Premium data)
Present mapping in different styles according to your needs
Access the maps in different projections – British National Grid and Web Mercator
Connect OS Maps API with your own geospatial data using the OS Power BI Map Visual
You can't:
Re-style the maps as they are pre-rendered images
Interact with the map features
OS Power BI Map Visual
The OS Power BI Map Visual is a custom open source visual designed to easily display geospatial data on an OS backdrop map in Power BI dashboards; the visual can be downloaded from the Releases page of the OS GitHub repository.
OS Maps API can be integrated with the OS Power BI Map Visual to enable you to connect geospatial data from your own organisation.
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