OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer

OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer | Data Products | OSOrdnance Survey

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

A Representation of OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer data

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.

Features

Sustainable service delivery

As Britain’s most comprehensive and up to date dataset of urban greenspaces, it 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 of 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

Use cases

This 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.

Summary

• Access: Download

• Data theme: Land, Land Use

• Data structure: Vector - Polygons

• Coverage: Great Britain

• Scale: 1:1 250 to 1:10 000

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

• Ordering area: All of Great Britain or customisable area (5km2 tiles)

• Publication months: April, October

• OS Data Hub plan: Energy & Infrastructure Plan, Premium Plan, Public Sector Plan

Additional info

OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer is designed to work with OS MasterMap Topography Layer and will be aligned to a particular release.

As Topography Layer is released every six weeks, it will be necessary to use the version number on the feature in both products to identify which release corresponds to your current holding of OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer.

Guides

Further information about the product can be found on the OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer product page on the OS website.

How to get this product

Access to this product is free for PSGA members. Find out if you are a PSGA member or try out a sample of OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer data by accessing the Greenspace layer product page with links to all of the relevant resources. Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.