Future OS NGD Data Enhancements

A high-level summary of upcoming data enhancements for the OS NGD.

OS NGD delivery roadmap for 2025 and 2026

The OS NGD delivery roadmap (as of March 2025) can be seen in the following image; the roadmap details what was delivered in the March 2025 data enhancements release, and what is planned for delivery in the upcoming September 2025 and March 2026 data enhancements release:

OS NGD delivery roadmap (as of March 2025).

In the future, we plan to deliver over 15 data enhancements to the OS NGD (detailed below). As we design and develop these data enhancements, more details will be added to this page.

Recently delivered enhancements to the OS NGD are listed on the What's New? page.

Future planned data enhancements to the OS NGD

Land and Land Use

• Extending inter tidal areas to include obscured polygons beneath elevated structures

• New attribution to indicate if land is vacant or derelict

Water

• Improved river width attribution

• New feature types for continuous tidelines to complement the existing Tidal Boundary Feature Type

Transport

• New attribution for cycle lanes and bus lanes

Address

• Ongoing improvements to address data regarding the consistency of address positioning, usage classifications, address lifecycle and business names

Administrative and Statistical Units

• Improved alignment of administrative and electoral boundaries with topographic features, where appropriate

• Addition of feature types for postcode points and enhanced postcode areas

Change

• Improved 'reason for change' metadata to make it easier for customers to identify change that is relevant to their use cases

Release dates for the planned OS NGD data enhancements listed above are available from the Product Roadmap page on the OS website.