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OS Emergency Services Gazetteer

The OS ESG product offers a national view for Great Britain and supports the Emergency Services with incident response, incident reporting and situational awareness.

The OS Emergency Services Gazetteer (OS ESG) provides a national, consistent, and maintained view of the locations of names, places and objects.

This product is updated monthly.

Image showing examples of the three types of features available in the OS Emergency Services Gazetteer – geographical names, road junctions, and bridge interactions. A background map has been included to provide context.
Image showing examples of the three types of features available in the OS Emergency Services Gazetteer – geographical names, road junctions, and bridge interactions. A background map has been included to provide context.

Easy to filter and apply features

The OS ESG is easily filterable so you can select the features that you are interested in based on the classifications allocated to those features.

Enhanced data for incident response and reporting

The gazetteer provides a single centralised source of information which allows for easier, faster and more precise identification of incident locations.

How to get this product

Access to this product is free for PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) Members. You can check if your organisation is a member of the PSGA on the OS website.

The OS ESG product page on the OS website has advice on how to get the product for developers, Partners and PSGA Members (i.e. government and the public sector).

The OS ESG product is supplied as an online download from the OS Data Hub.

Sample data

Download OS EGS sample data

You can download sample data for the OS ESG for free from the OS Data Hub. The sample data are available in GeoPackage and CSV (comma-separated values) formats and cover three areas (Exeter, Newport and Inverness).

Visualise OS ESG sample data online

This product is available to try out free online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:

What's next?

To access documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:

New users should start with the Overview to gain high-level insight into the product. The Getting Started Guide will help you to begin using product data in different software systems. The Technical Specification contains detailed technical insights.

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