Land Use Features
The OS NGD Land Use Features Collection gives you access to the most current and comprehensive land use sites and site access data captured by Ordnance Survey.
Collection applications
The OS NGD Land Use Features Collection allows you to:
Ensure your land use data is always completely up to date, with up to daily updates.
Access all our land use sites and access locations data from one place.
Visualise and analyse data based on the extent of areas with different types of land use, including amongst others, residential, education, greenspaces, hospitals, and transport hubs.
Quickly interpret the land use which is happening at a given site, using the description or land use attribute value (such as private residential, primary school, golf course).
Analyse the number and location of sites with a given land use across areas or regions (such as locating all the schools in a county).
Understand the location of access points into major sites (such as train stations, schools, and public parks) and how these sites are accessed from the road network.
The enhanced Status attribute provided for Site features allows you to:
Understand the state of a Site (i.e. 'Active', 'Derelict', 'Inactive', 'Under Construction' or 'Unknown') in relation to either its physical condition or the activity the feature is intended to support.
Conduct risk assessments and ensure appropriate deployment of resources (Emergency Services).
Produce more accurate Local Development Plans (LDPs) by assessing areas suitable for development, including brown and green field sites (Local Authorities).
More easily gather land use status data to use in green infrastructure development projects, including requirements for Biodiversity Bet Gain policy (Architects and Developers).
Identify potential growth areas for clean renewable energy (Government and industry experts, such as Energy UK).
Publish a register of vacant and derelict land (Local Authorities in Scotland).
Key elements
Up to daily updates to data.
Plug and play – the data is simple and quick to implement as you don't need to pre-process it before you use it.
Rich attribution ensures the data is straightforward to navigate and query.
Persistent unique identifiers with lifecycle information.
Includes Sites for a wide range of land use types all in one dataset.
Consistent classifications.
Name attribution for non-residential sites (if known).
Millions of new sites, including sites representing areas with residential land use.
Site access location and routing points with links to OS NGD transport networks.
National land use standards used to provide universal insights for human activity (NLUD classification and BS7666 national addressing classification).
Ongoing improvement programme based on user feedback.
Coverage
Great Britain.
Default coordinate reference system
British National Grid (EPSG: 27700).
Temporal filtering
The earliest date on which you can request a one-off snapshot of a date in the past for data in this collection is noted at the top of the individual feature type pages.
Supply formats
GeoPackage, CSV (comma-separated values), GeoJSON or vector tiles (the latter format is only available for one feature type in the collection: Site).
Supply mechanism
Accessed through the OS Data Hub via:
OS Select+Build (the bespoke OS NGD download service)
OS NGD API – Features
OS NGD API – Tiles (only available for one feature type in the collection: Site)
Using our data
Included in the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) – therefore, it's free at point of use for Public Sector organisations.
Available to OS Partners for commercial resell in your solutions.
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