October 2024

OS MasterMap Sites Layer provides a nationally consistent representation of polygon features that represent the area or extent of certain types of function or activity in Sites with the appropriate attribution. The product also includes Access Points to assist users in navigating into and out of the Sites (with references to the OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads product).

Feature type counts

Product quality

There are no significant issues that would impair the use of this product in the October 2024 release. However, two minor errors have been identified with this release that users should be aware of:

1. There are 25 instances of Access Point features not intersecting the edge of the associated Functional Site, whereby the Access Point geometry is between 5m and 100m in distance from the referenced Functional Site.

2. 327 Access Points reference Road Nodes that do not exist in the latest OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads product release, although this error is often due to the timing of the releases not lining up.

*Routing Points are no longer supplied from the October 2023 release onwards (see the Product Improvements section for full details).

Product improvements

To meet customer needs, Ordnance Survey has created a fully routable multi-modal network, and a key element of this is to provide more usable data about the access to destinations. To this end, we are now directly splitting our Road, Track and Path data where Access Link features connect to the network; this will allow customers to more easily route into Sites using OS network data.

Whereas previously some Access Points referenced Routing Points, all will now reference a Road Node from the OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads product. Consequently, there is no requirement for Routing Point features, and these features are no longer suppled as part of the OS MasterMap Sites Layer product.

As a result, the Routing Point layer has not been supplied from the October 2023 publication onwards.

For customers that use Geography Markup Language (GML) format, there is no change to the schema, so product loading should be unaffected. However, please be aware that for customers using GeoPackage, no table for Routing Points is provided, and similarly for the vector tiles format, no layer is provided for Routing Points.

Next release

The next release of OS MasterMap Sites Layer is scheduled for April 2025.