Transport Features

The OS NGD Transport Features Collection provides the most detailed topographic data available of the physical transport environment of Great Britain. The collection is made up of individual real-world topographic transport features, including roads, railway lines, tracks, paths, and street lights. Each feature is uniquely referenced and has attributes that record the feature’s lifecycle.

From March 2025, the Street Light Feature Type was added to the collection, which describes the location of street lights. (New Street Light attribution was also added against Road Link and Path Link features in the OS NGD Transport Network Collection at this time.)

Example image showing what the feature types in the OS NGD Transport Features Collection look like in the data. A background map has been included to provide context.

Collection applications

The OS NGD Transport Features Collection allows you to:

• Ensure your transport data is always up to date with up to daily updates.

• Visualise the road, track and path network across Great Britain.

• Filter data using the Description attribute (for example, you can filter for pavements or central reservations).

• Perform statistical analysis.

• Visualise the rail network across Great Britain.

• Interpret the land cover adjacent to transport features.

The Street Light Feature Type allows you to:

• Visualise the location of street lights and identify their nearest Road Link or Path Link.

• Conduct road safety analysis.

• Optimise existing infrastructure resources and identify opportunities to repurpose street lights (for example, as electric vehicle charge points or for 5G infrastructure).

• Identify gaps in street lighting that might be acting as barriers to creating safe well-lit active travel routes.

Example visualisation showing Street Light features and their attribution. A background map has been included to provide context.

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.

• Simplified attribute naming helps make names easier to understand.

• Persistent unique identifiers with lifecycle information.

• Cross-references make it easy for you to link data in this collection with data from other OS NGD collections.

• Linear geometry for the Road Line Feature Type and the Road Track Or Path Feature Type.

• Geometry available for every feature.

• Land use classification (for example, residential accommodation) provided for the Road Track Or Path Feature Type and Rail Feature Type to indicate the prominent use of the Site which contains the infrastructure.

• National land use standards used to provide universal insights for human activity (NLUD classification and BS7666 national addressing classification).

• An Office for National Statistics (ONS) Government Statistical Service (GSS) code is provided for Road Track Or Path features and Rail features within Lower Tier Local Authority areas to indicate which Lower Tier Local Authority boundary the feature lies within.

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.

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 (not available for one feature type in the collection: Street Light)

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.

Useful links

An introductory guide to OS NGD Transport Features is available on our More than Maps site; this guide details the layers, formats, and attribution available for OS NGD Transport Features data.