What's New?
As we release new enhancements into the OS NGD, we will update this page to provide you with a high-level summary of what's launched.
2024 OS NGD enhancements
March 2024 – OS NGD data enhancements
Buildings
Building Age: The age of the main building in a site, created using Verisk data and OS data.
Construction Material: The primary construction material of the building, created using Verisk data and OS data.
Basement Presence: An indicator to show whether a basement or a self-contained basement flat are present at the building, created using Verisk data and OS data.
Building Description: A new description attribute to describe the nature of the building, derived from its use and relation to surrounding buildings, created using OS data.
Enhanced land cover attribution
Enhanced land cover attribution to ‘natural’ topographic area features across the OS NGD ‘Features’ Collections for Land, Structures, Transport and Water.
Improved consistency and accuracy for specific land features by reducing the minimum capture size criteria in rural and moorland geographies.
Mapping OS land cover classification to recognised habitat classification schemes (EUNIS and UK BAP Broad Habitats) in a new cross reference table.
Assigning a percentage cover value to topographic areas in a new cross reference table.
Structures – Field Boundary
New Field Boundary Feature Type added to the Structure Features Collection to identify the location, nature and properties of a field boundary in rural and moorland areas.
Height and width values provided for vegetated field boundary features.
Transport
New Tram On Road Feature Type added to the Transport Network Collection to locate where trams are present against the OS road network.
Tram track attribution added indicating the presence of tram tracks on a road. Supplied as new attribution against Road Link features.
Geographical Names
New Named Road Junction Feature Type added to the Named Features Collection, which provides enhanced names and the numbers of junctions. Includes both officially named or numbered junctions and intersects without an official name or number.
2023 OS NGD enhancements
OS NGD delivery roadmap for 2023 and 2024
The OS NGD delivery roadmap (as of March 2024) can be seen in the following image; the roadmap details what was delivered in the March 2023, September 2023 and March 2024 data releases, and what is planned for delivery in the upcoming September 2024 data release:
In the future, we plan to deliver over 30 data enhancements to the OS NGD. As we design and develop these data enhancements, more details will be added to the 'Future OS NGD Data Enhancements' page.
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