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OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads
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A navigable road network dataset with detailed information about planned roads and roads under construction for Great Britain.
This product is updated monthly.
For all highways stakeholders, OS MasterMap Highways Network is data you can trust. It draws on authoritative sources and helps underpin the common operational picture that leads to faster, better decisions.
A common highways dataset means a common understanding of the existing network, enabling better decision and policy making.
Highly detailed road geometry supplied with essential unique identifiers, including the Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) and Topographic Identifiers (TOIDs), which enable linking and sharing of data against the road and street networks.
Get detailed information about planned roads and roads under construction helping you to better understand the roads of today and the roads of tomorrow.
OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads combines high-quality, accurately surveyed data with features from the National Street Gazetteer; the Local Highways Authorities road name, numbering and maintenance; the Trunk Road Street Gazetteer collected by Highways England and Welsh Government; and the Scottish Street Gazetteer containing information from Scottish local authorities and Transport Scotland.
Access to this product is free for Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) Members. Find out if you are a PSGA Member or download a sample of OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads by accessing the product page on the OS website, which has links to all of the relevant resources. Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.
OS MasterMap Highways Network data is available through our OS Features API, providing location-based insights combining topography data with buildings, transport, and water layer data to create detailed datasets with a high degree of accuracy. Find out more about our OS API platform here to unlock access to rich geospatial data and integrate OS data and services into your applications.
Access to OS MasterMap Highways Network data is also available through the OS NGD Transport Theme, providing data that is interoperable with other OS NGD themes, improved data structures, and a data schema designed to be simple to use and interrogate. Users may find NGD Transport Theme data more accessible and easier to use with databases and GIS software. Find out more about NGD data here to discover how to access OS NGD and what's available to users.
To access additional 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.
This product is available to try out online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:
