OS Open Names

OS Open Names | Data Products | OSOrdnance Survey

OS Open Names is a comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain. The data contains accurate and current settlement names, road names and numbers, postcodes and their locations, with additional contextual information and links to other datasets.

This product is updated quarterly in January, April, July, October.

A representation of OS Open Names data against a background map

Features

Accurate locations of streets and postcodes

Let your customer-facing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in Great Britain.

Place name data

Quickly look up places and roads with two names. OS Open Names contains place name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives.

Comprehensive National Grid data

OS Open Names contains over 870 000 named and numbered roads, nearly 44 000 settlements and over 1.6 million postcodes, all matched/mapped to the National Grid.

Summary

• Access: Download

• Data themes: Administrative and Statistical Units, Geographical Names, Transport

• Data structure: Vector

• Coverage: Great Britain

• Scale: 1:1 250 to 1:10 000

• Format: CSV, GML 3.2.1, GeoPackage

• Ordering area: All of Great Britain

• Publication months: January, April, July, October

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

Additional Information

OS Open Names level of detail

OS Open Names doesn’t go down to the level of locations of individual houses, but it does show the location of roads. It also tells your GIS how far to zoom out to show the full length of your street.

For property locations, you will need one of the AddressBase products.

Need complete addresses?

If your work requires the full postal address, we recommend AddressBase products.

How to get this product

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

Visualise OS Open Names data online

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:

OS MasterMap Product Viewer

Interactive demonstrator of OS MasterMap Generation data