🆕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.

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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.

Features

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.

Use Cases

Supporting in emergencies

Using our ability to analyse and collate information, the OS ESG provides Emergency Services with the data they need to estimate emergency response times.

Aiming to improve the recording of road traffic incidents

Analysing trends and patterns of road traffic collisions to both help identify risk and support incident planning.

Working to improve public safety

The OS ESG enables emergency responders to be more accurately informed, improving response times and public safety:

• Quick and accurate gazetteer searches

• Support incident reporting

• Enhanced data sharing across emergency services

• Supports incident analysis and modelling

• Operational reporting

Summary

• Access: Download

• Data theme: Geographical Names

• Data structure: Vector – Points

• Coverage: Great Britain

• Format: CSV, GeoPackage

• Ordering area: All of Great Britain or custom ordering options (areas of interest – AOIs) available for both formats

• OS Data Hub plan: Premium Plan, Public Sector Plan

How to get this product

Access to this product is free for PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) Members. Find out if you are a PSGA Member or try out a sample of OS ESG data by accessing the OS ESG product page on the OS website where you will find links to all of the relevant resources.

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