OS NGD News

This section contains pages relating to new data enhancements and service updates released for the OS NGD, the change log, improvements, planned future data enhancements and recent announcements.

📣 Recent announcements

2025 announcements

July 2025 – Improvements to data in the OS NGD Building, OS NGD Land, OS NGD Land Use, OS NGD Structures and OS NGD Water Features Collections

We are making numerous improvements to data in the OS NGD Building, OS NGD Land, OS NGD Land Use, OS NGD Structures and OS NGD Water Features Collections in July 2025; to find out information about what these improvements include, please see the OS NGD Improvements page.

June 2025 – Edit a recipe functionality added to OS Select+Build

You can now edit a recipe in OS Select+Build to add or remove themes / feature types, or change attribute filtering or data schema versions. Please see 'How do I edit a recipe?' on the Downloading with OS Select+Build page for more details.

June 2025 – OS NGD GSS code data improvements for OS NGD Buildings, OS NGD Structures, OS NGD Land, OS NGD Transport features and OS NGD Water features

We have enhanced the assignment and maintenance of Government Statistical Service (GSS) codes, which are used to accurately identify a wide range of UK geographical areas for statistical and administrative purposes. This improvement increases the precision and reliability of boundary representation within our datasets. To find out more information about what these improvements include, please see the OS NGD Improvements page.

June 2025 – OS NGD Building Feature Type data improvements for Basement Presence, Construction Material and Number of Floors

As a result of work in collaboration with Verisk, there will be improvements made in June 2025 to the Basement Presence, Construction Material and Number of Floors attribution in the OS NGD Building Feature Type. To find out more information about what these improvements include, please see the OS NGD Improvements page.

May 2025 – Height data enhancement for OS NGD Structures and OS NGD Buildings data

A new enhancement to the way OS NGD Structures and OS NGD Buildings data is created is now live. To find out more information about what these enhancements include, please see the OS NGD Improvements page.

March 2025 – OS NGD enhancements release now live

The March 2025 enhancements release for the OS NGD is now live. To find out more information about what these enhancements include, please see the 'What's New' page.

2024 announcements

OS NGD Address Christmas shutdown

There will be no daily updates of OS NGD Address over the Christmas shutdown period (24/12/2024–01/01/2025). Updates will resume as normal on the 02 January 2025.

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