OS Open Rivers
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OS Open Rivers provides an open dataset of the high-level view of watercourses in Great Britain. OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144 000km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals.
Model simple what-if scenarios. OS Open Rivers lets you answer questions such as:
Which rivers would be affected by a toxic discharge from this site?
OS Open Rivers lets you tag information with the river IDs used by environment agencies so everybody can use it, ideal for sharing water quality data.
OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144 000km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals.
To access additional documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:
OS Open Rivers supports a wide range of applications that use geographic information. The product can be used alone or in combination with other Ordnance Survey products, such as or . OS Open Rivers has numerous applications, including but not limited to, the following examples:
It is important to note that detailed analysis is not supported in OS Open Rivers; this requires the additional detail and complexity available in .
OS Open Rivers does not show the width of a river. For information like this, you will need to use .
Access to this OS OpenData product is free through the .
