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OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer
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.
Sustainable service delivery
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.
Environmental management
It can help you manage the local green environment, including air quality, biodiversity, housing regeneration and flood resilience.
Powering policies:
Use OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer to support policy interventions around health and wellbeing though the promotion of increased physical activity and improved mental health.
Natural Capital
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.
How to get this product
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.
Visualise OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer data online
Other ways to access this data
OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer data is available through our OS Features API, providing location-based insights that combine topography data with buildings, transport, and water layer data to create finely 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 Greenspace Layer data is also available through the OS NGD Land Theme and OS NGD Land Use 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 Land Theme and NGD Land Use 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.
What's next?
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.
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