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.
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.
Compatible with other layers of OS MasterMap and OS products
The product can be used on its own, or combined with other Ordnance Survey products, such as OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS MasterMap Sites Layer, and OS Open Greenspace.
Supports 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.
Aids environmental management
It can help you manage the local green environment, including air quality, biodiversity, housing regeneration and flood resilience.
Powers 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.
Aids assessment of 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
This product is available to try out free online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:
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. Visit the OS API docs site to unlock programmatic 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 the OS NGD Land Theme data and OS NGD Land Use Theme data more accessible and easier to use with databases and GIS software. Visit the OS NGD docs site to discover how to access the OS NGD and learn what's available to users.
What's next?
To access additional documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:
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