OS Download Products' Documentation

Explore documentation and guides for OS Premium and OpenData Download products, such as AddressBase Premium, OS MasterMap Topography Layer, Boundary-Line and OS Open Zoomstack.

What's available on this site?

This is a self-serve site containing documentation and guides relating to Ordnance Survey (OS) Premium and OpenData Download products available to download through the OS Data Hub.

The Download products are grouped by portfolio: Addressing and Location, Contextual or Derived, Networks, Topography, Identifiers, and Height.

On the left-hand-side menu, under each product listing, we've arranged the documents from high-level Overview to low-level Technical Specification. A Getting Started Guide and Release Notes are available for most products. We've also added links to any additional files (for example, CSV header files, stylesheets and XML schemas) available for some products but held on separate OS sites on product-specific 'Downloads' pages.

There's a Product Announcements page for notable product news, a Product Refresh Dates page that details product update schedules, and a PSGA Product Summary page, which lists all of the OS data products available to Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) Members on an unlimited basis across the downloadable products, APIs and OS National Geographic Database (OS NGD).

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✨ What's new?

📣 Product Announcements

A new page detailing any newsworthy announcements for the Download data products.

OS Emergency Services Gazetteer

A new gazetteer which contains the locations of names, places and objects to support use cases related to the Protection of Life.

OS Multi-modal Routing Network

A new routable network product which integrates and connects OS road network and routing information, path network and rail network to create a multi-modal routing network.

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There are two types of Download data product: OS Premium and OS OpenData.

What are OS Premium Download data products?

When we refer to Premium products we mean paid-for datasets – whether they’re paid for by businesses, purchased through an OS Partner, or accessed free at the point of use under the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA).

The OS Premium Download data products are available to download in a range of formats, with a variety of ordering options, through the OS Data Hub on our Premium, Public Sector and Energy and Infrastructure plans.

Our Premium Download data products work in a range of software, including ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS, Mapbox, Cadcorp SIS, MapInfo, Tableau, Kepler.gl and many more.

What are OS OpenData Download products?

OS OpenData Download products are free to use by anyone for any purpose – including for services from which you make a profit.

The OS OpenData Download products are available to download in a variety of formats, with a variety of ordering options, through the OS Data Hub.

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Download product portfolios

Addressing and Location

Contextual or Derived Mapping

Networks

Topography

Identifiers

Height and Imagery

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The terms and conditions on which the OS Premium Download data products are made available can be found via the applicable links on the legal information pages of the OS Data Hub.

The terms and conditions on which the OS OpenData Download products are made available are contained within the Open Government Licence and can be found via the applicable links under each OS OpenData geospatial dataset available for download from the OS Data Hub. The OS copyright attribution statement required under the Open Government Licence can be found in the licence file downloaded with the data from the OS Data Hub.