OS VectorMap Local

OS VectorMap Local | Data Products | OSOrdnance Survey

OS VectorMap Local is a highly-detailed, customisable, street-level map, showing fences, building outlines, paths and street names. The vector format of the product consists of layers to enable you to customise and style the output to suit your needs.

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

An example of OS VectorMap Local map data

Features

Highly detailed attributes

VectorMap Local is full of rich, detailed mapping attributes and features that improves contextual information and in-depth analysis – especially when compared to alternative data sources.

Customisable

Prebuilt colour options are available for both vector and raster formats, but vector data is fully customisable. You can design your VML basemap to perfectly suit your needs. This might be to a preferred colour palette, to suit different viewing methods or to highlight features of most interest.

Accurate and reliable real-world information

OS VectorMap Local is generated automatically from OS Large Scale Topographic database (used for OS MasterMap Topography Layer), improving currency and consistency to give accurate and reliable real world geographical information.

Summary

• Access: Download

• Data theme: Contextual

• Data structure: Raster, Vector (Points, Lines, Polygons, Text)

• Coverage: Great Britain

• Scale: 1:10 000

• Format: GML 3.2.1, GeoPackage, GeoTIFF with LZW compression

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

• Publication months: January, April, July, October

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

Additional Information

OS VectorMap Local can be used in a variety of formats

Try using the dataset in colour, or with a black and white backdrop.

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 VectorMap Local data by accessing the VectorMap Local product page of the OS website, which has links to all of the relevant resources. Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.

Visualise OS VectorMap Local 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