Technical specification

This technical specification explains the content of the OS Places API and the methods that you can use to call it.

If you are not familiar with the OS Places API please read the overview documentation before proceeding.

Core concepts

This specification does not cover core concepts that apply to all Ordnance Survey APIs.

Please read the following pages to learn more about OS API core concepts:

API reference

OS Places API has seven types of requests, that fall into two categories:

Capture and verification

GeoSearch

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