Getting started with recipes

What is a recipe?

A recipe is a bespoke selection of OS NGD data which is made by a user within OS Select+Build. Recipes allow you to choose the OS NGD data that best fits your requirements.

OS NGD data is structured by themes, collections, and feature types; the main advantage to this data structure is that you can easily find and select individual feature types across different themes and build your own recipes and data package/s containing only the data you are interested in. There's also the option to select all or only a few feature types from a single theme.

Every new recipe you create will be stored in your OS Select+Build Recipe Library. This library will be visible to other people in your organisation. It provides a central place for colleagues to view and use recipes.

Using OS Select+Build recipes

📋 Managing recipes

Create and manage OS Select+Build recipes within your organisation:

Create a new recipe

Find my Recipe Library

Check what's in a recipe

Delete a recipe

✏️ Editing recipes

Edit your OS Select+Build recipes to improve your recipe library:

Edit the name of a recipe

Edit the description of a recipe

Edit a recipe

📔 Sharing recipes

Share OS Select+Build recipes with external organisations to improve collaboration:

Share a recipe

Accept a shared recipe

Reject a shared recipe

▶️ Getting started with attribute filtering

Use attribute filtering to narrow down data selection beyond the feature type level, creating bespoke recipes of OS NGD data:

Check if filters are used in a recipe

Add attribute filters to a new recipe

Add attribute filters to an existing recipe

Worked example of creating a simple filter

Worked example of creating a nested filter

Things to remember

You can:

• Delete a recipe

• Edit an existing recipe (i.e. add or remove themes / feature types, or change attribute filtering or data schema versions)

• Edit the name or description of a recipe

• Create multiple data packages from a single recipe

• Delete a data package

• Search through your organisation's recipes in the OS Select+Build Recipe Library using the recipe name, description, or content (i.e. themes, collections, or feature types)

• Search through your organisation's data packages in the Data packages list screen using the data package name, data package number, or product name

• Collect your data package(s) via the OS Data Hub or the OS Downloads API

• Share a recipe with another organisation that has access to OS Select+Build

You can't:

• Download the contents of an OS NGD data package using the grouped file function