OS Open Rivers

OS Open Rivers | Data Products | OSOrdnance Survey

OS Open Rivers provides an open dataset of the high-level view of watercourses in Great Britain. OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144,000 km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals.

This product is updated every six months

OS Open Rivers dataset visualised

Features

Solve challenges

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?

Water quality data

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.

Comprehensive map data

OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144,000 km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals.

Summary

• Access: Download

• Category: Networks

• Data theme: Water

• Data structure: Vector - Topologically structured link and node network

• Coverage: Great Britain

• Scale: 1:15 000 to 1:30 000

• Format: ESRI Shapefile, GeoPackage, GML 3.2.1, Vector Tiles

• Ordering area: All of Great Britain

• Publication months: April, October

• OS Data Hub plan: Energy & Infrastructure Plan, OS OpenData Plan (FREE), Premium Plan, Public Sector Plan

Additional information

River width requirements

OS Open Rivers does not show the width of a river. For information like this, you will need OS MasterMap Water Network.

Guides

You can find additional information and documentation on the OS Open Rivers support page of the OS website.

We recommend you read the following guides:

• Getting Started with GeoPackage

• Getting Started with Vector Tiles

How to get this product

Access to OS OpenData is free through the OS Data Hub.