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 NGD 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