OS NGD API – Features
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With OS NGD API – Features, you can filter by attribute, location and / or time to create your own customised data selections. Based on the latest OGC API – Features standard, this API can help accelerate your time-to-value by making it easier to build awesome things with our trusted geospatial data. You can use it to reduce your data management overheads, automate your workflows, and innovate at pace.
Increased data update frequency
You can access OS NGD themes of data which are updated up to daily.
Rich attribution
Access OS NGD data that has been enriched with attribution to ensure that it's straightforward to navigate and query.
New, easier ways to access data
OS NGD API – Features gives you direct, online access to the OS NGD and schemas using the latest OGC API – Features standard.
Choose exactly what data you take
Access the OS NGD feature type you need rather than taking pre-selected OS products and filter only what is important to you.
You can:
Request specific features using location, attribute, and / or time queries.
Interrogate highly detailed feature information.
Freely discover what OS NGD data collections are available.
Explore the OS NGD data schemas and queryables.
Request data in GeoJSON format.
Visualise OS data and apply your own styling.
You can't:
Create a scalable map of Great Britain across zoom levels.
Request more than 100 features in a single transaction.
Access data from the:
OS NGD Address Theme
OS NGD Administrative and Statistical Units Theme
Waterbody Catchment and River Basin District Catchment Feature Types (of the OS NGD Water Features Collection in the OS NGD Water Theme)
If you are interested in addressing information, OS Places API provides a detailed view of an address and its lifecycle, giving you direct access to rich address data for geocoding, postcode searching, form-filling and much more.
