Styling OS NGD Data

Access resources for styling OS NGD data provided by the OS NGD APIs.

OS Select+Build and OS NGD API – Features

You can choose from a range of contextual or analytical styles to visualise OS NGD data.

Four cartographic styles – Outdoor, Road, Light, and Black & White – are available to give the data a cartographic appearance:

Analytical styles can be used to colour OS NGD data by theme and collection to support data visualisation:

Tutorial on downloading and using OS stylesheets

A useful tutorial on 'How to download and use OS stylesheets' is available on our 'More Than Maps' site (a self-serve platform that provides a one-stop shop for all your OS technical geospatial support, including tutorials, demonstrators and case studies).

OS NGD API – Tiles

If you are using OS NGD API – Tiles, all the styling resources, including JSON files and sprites, are hosted within the vector tiles endpoint.

You can now create your own custom style for OS NGD API – Tiles; please see the Creating a custom style for OS NGD API – Tiles page for a guide on how to do this.