🆕Crowd Sourced Name Point

A crowd sourced name collated from data submitted to the Vernacular Names Tool in the OS Data Hub, provided as a point feature.

• The Vernacular Names Tool is a resource developed by Ordnance Survey to assist Emergency Services by incorporating user-submitted colloquial names for geographic features across Great Britain.

• Crowd Sourced Names are unofficial names; for proper names and authoritative addresses, please see the unique identifiers available for each Crowd Sourced Name Point feature – the OSID, Matched UPRN, and Matched USRN.

Examples of features within the Crowd Sourced Name Point Feature Type. The map is centred over Torquay, Devon, England.

Temporal filtering

The earliest date on which you can request a one-off snapshot of data in the past for data in this feature type is 27 March 2025.

Feature type attributes

The following sub-sections provide details about the attributes included with this feature type, their data types in the different output formats, and other important metadata about them.

Loading OS NGD CSV files into databases

Comma-separated values (CSV) file format is universally supported for easy ingestion into all major database products. Before loading OS NGD data contained in CSV files into a database, it is necessary to create relevant tables. Data definition language (DDL) statements for PostgreSQL, SQL Server and Oracle can be accessed in our OS NGD Resources GitHub repository.

For instructions on loading CSV files, see the Getting Started with CSV guide.

osid

Primary identifier for the feature. The OSID is a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) and requires no centralised authority to ensure uniqueness. Note that the same OSID can occur in more than one feature type when a single feature is represented multiple times in the OS NGD.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Max Length: 36

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: Yes

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

versiondate

Date when the version was last updated.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

versionavailablefromdate

The date this version of the feature became the latest version.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), DateTime (GPKG), DateTime (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

versionavailabletodate

The date this version of the feature was superseded by an update or ceased to exist.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), DateTime (GPKG), DateTime (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

changetype

The type of change that generated a new version of the feature.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name: changetypevalue

• Max Length: 50

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

geometry

Geometry for the feature.

• Data Types: Geometry (GeoJSON), Geometry (GPKG), WKT (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

• Geometry Type: Point

theme

The OS NGD theme to which the feature belongs.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name: themevalue

• Max Length: 40

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

description

A single descriptive value intended for a quick understanding of what the feature represents.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name: crowdsourcednamedescriptionvalue

• Max Length: 20

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: Yes

• OS Select+Build Filterable: Yes

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

name_text

The third party provided name assigned to identify the feature.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Max Length: 100

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: Yes

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

name_language

Third party suggested language of the name, provided as a 3-digit ISO 639-2 code ('eng', 'cym', 'gla').

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name: languagevalue

• Max Length: 3

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

name_evidencedate

The date provided in the third party information received, on which the crowd sourced name was evidenced.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

name_source

The name of the organisation that submitted the crowd sourced name.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Max Length: 100

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

hassimilarosname

An indicator that the crowd sourced name has a similar name recorded in the matched OS NGD feature.

The Has Similar OS Name attribute will initially be set to False for all features, but may be revised in future enhancements.

• Data Types: Boolean (GeoJSON), Boolean (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

matchtype

Description of the matching outcome against OS NGD data.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name: crowdsourcednamematchtypevalue

• Max Length: 60

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

sourceclassification

Third party provided classification of the OS NGD feature the crowd sourced name describes.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Max Length: 200

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

matchedosid

Identifier of the OS NGD feature that the crowd sourced name feature has been matched to.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 36

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

matchedosid_theme

OS NGD theme of the OS NGD feature that the crowd sourced name feature has been matched to.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Code List Name: matchedthemengdvalue

• Max Length: 20

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

matchedosid_featuretype

Name of the OS NGD feature type that the crowd sourced name has been matched to.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Code List Name: matchedfeaturetypengdvalue

• Max Length: 20

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

matcheduprn

Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) for the Address that the crowd sourced name has been matched to.

• Data Types: Number (GeoJSON), Integer (GPKG), Integer (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0

matchedusrn

Unique Street Reference Number (USRN) for the Street that the crowd sourced name has been matched to.

• Data Types: Integer (GeoJSON), Integer (GPKG), Integer (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

• OS Select+Build Filterable: No

• Data Schema Version: 1.0