Addressing and Location Portfolio Information

This page provides an overview of the OS downloadable addressing and location product portfolio.

Addressing and location products

Addressing and location products provide authoritative and accurate address, property and land data, with comprehensive location-based directories for users to draw from. The following downloadable products are available within the addressing and location portfolio:

AddressBase

Access to a current view of all Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF) addresses with additional location-based data featuring residential or commercial classifications.

AddressBase Core

Access to over 33 million addresses sourced from Local Authority data and supplied with a Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) and property-level coordinates.

AddressBase Plus

Access to over 37 million postal and non-postal addresses sourced from Local Authorities, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail for England, Wales and Scotland.

AddressBase Plus Islands

An addressing gazetteer offering full lifecycle information of a property for Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

AddressBase Premium

Provides the most detailed view available of an address and its lifecycle from creation through to retirement in England, Wales and Scotland.

AddressBase Premium Islands

Provides the most detailed view of an address and its lifecycle for Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Boundary-Line

An open dataset that represents every administrative and electoral boundary and their names for England, Scotland and Wales.

Code-Point

A postcode locator that locates over 1.7 million postcode units in Great Britain and Northern Ireland – providing information about delivery points, positional quality, type and district codes amongst other data points.

Code-Point Open

An open dataset of all 1.7 million postcode units in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Code-Point with Polygons

A dataset providing the notional extent of every postcode in Great Britain for visualisation and analysis at a national scale.

OS Emergency Services Gazetteer (OS ESG)

Provides a national, consistent, and maintained view of the locations of names, places and objects in Great Britain to support the Emergency Services.

OS Open Built Up Areas

Provides a dataset representing Built Up Areas of Great Britain designed to underpin statistical analysis and contribute to policy enablement across the public sector.

OS Open Names

A comprehensive open dataset of place names, road numbers and postcodes for Great Britain.

Points of Interest

Provides a comprehensive location-based directory of all public and privately owned businesses, educational institutions and leisure services in Great Britain.