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# Styling OS NGD Data

Resources for styling OS NGD data.

## OS Select+Build and OS NGD API – Features

You can choose from a range of contextual or analytical styles to visualise OS NGD data. 

Four **cartographic styles** – Outdoor, Road, Light, and Black & White – are available to give the data a cartographic appearance:

{% embed url="<https://github.com/OrdnanceSurvey/OS-NGD-Stylesheets>" %}

**Analytical styles** can be used to colour OS NGD data by theme and collection to support data visualisation:

{% embed url="<https://github.com/OrdnanceSurvey/osngd-resources/tree/main/styling>" %}

{% hint style="info" %}

### Tutorials on downloading and using OS stylesheets and styling data analytically

Two useful tutorials are available on our ['More Than Maps' site](https://docs.os.uk/more-than-maps) (a self-serve platform that provides a one-stop shop for all your OS technical geospatial support, including tutorials, demonstrators and case studies):

* [How to download and use OS stylesheets](https://docs.os.uk/more-than-maps/geographic-data-visualisation/geodataviz-assets/stylesheets/how-to-download-and-use-os-stylesheets)
* [OS NGD analytical styling](https://docs.os.uk/more-than-maps/geographic-data-visualisation/geodataviz-assets/styling-data/ngd-analytical-styling)
  {% endhint %}

## OS NGD API – Tiles

If you are using OS NGD API – Tiles, all the styling resources, including JSON files and sprites, are hosted within the [vector tiles endpoint](https://api.os.uk/maps/vector/ngd/ota/v1/).

You can now create your own custom style for [OS NGD API – Tiles](https://docs.os.uk/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles); please see the [Creating a custom style for OS NGD API – Tiles page](https://docs.os.uk/os-apis/core-concepts/styling-os-ngd-data/creating-a-custom-style-for-os-ngd-api-tiles) on the OS APIs Documentation site for a guide on how to do this.


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