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OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer
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OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer is a detailed dataset of the greenspaces within an urban area for Great Britain. It includes both publicly accessible and private green spaces, sports facilities and natural environment features, to give a comprehensive view of spaces that are important for applications such as environmental management, health, planning, or habitat mappings.
This product is updated every six months in April and October.
The OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer dataset has been designed for the public sector, it shows accessible and non-accessible greenspaces in urban areas, helping to support a wider set of government initiatives around health and the environment.
As Britain’s most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset of urban greenspaces, the product can be used to support efficiencies in service deliveries, investments and policy creation where use of such greenspaces is a factor.
It can help you manage the local green environment, including air quality, biodiversity, housing regeneration and flood resilience.
Use OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer to support policy interventions around health and wellbeing though the promotion of increased physical activity and improved mental health.
The OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer dataset comprises topographic areas published in OS MasterMap Topography Layer, with additional greenspace-specific attribution to describe their function. It includes both publicly accessible and private green spaces, sports facilities and natural environment features.
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 Greenspace Layer data by accessing the OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer product page on the OS website, which has links to all of the relevant resources.
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:
