Styling OS NGD Data

Resources for styling OS NGD data.

OS Select+Build and OS NGD API – Features

You can choose from a range of contextual or analytical styles to visualise OS NGD data.

Four cartographic styles – Outdoor, Road, Light, and Black & White – are available to give the data a cartographic appearance:

GitHub - OrdnanceSurvey/OS-NGD-Stylesheets: Ordnance Survey Repository containing stylesheets for OS NGD data in QML, QLR, LYRX, LYR and SLD formatGitHub

Analytical styles can be used to colour OS NGD data by theme and collection to support data visualisation:

osngd-resources/styling at main · OrdnanceSurvey/osngd-resourcesGitHub

Tutorials on downloading and using OS stylesheets and styling data analytically

Two useful tutorials are available on our 'More Than Maps' site (a self-serve platform that provides a one-stop shop for all your OS technical geospatial support, including tutorials, demonstrators and case studies):

• How to download and use OS stylesheets

• OS NGD analytical styling

OS NGD API – Tiles

If you are using OS NGD API – Tiles, all the styling resources, including JSON files and sprites, are hosted within the vector tiles endpoint.

You can now create your own custom style for OS NGD API – Tiles; please see the Creating a custom style for OS NGD API – Tiles page on the OS APIs Documentation site for a guide on how to do this.