🆕OS ESG Overview
This overview introduces the OS ESG and gives context for all users – highlighting key features, providing examples of potential uses, and listing details such as supply formats, currency, etc.
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This overview introduces the OS ESG and gives context for all users – highlighting key features, providing examples of potential uses, and listing details such as supply formats, currency, etc.
Last updated
The OS Emergency Services Gazetteer (OS ESG) is a single centralised source of critical information that allows first responders to precisely identify locations when the need is greatest.
It was developed in collaboration with the Emergency Services, who provided invaluable feedback. It provides enhanced data, such as road and motorway junctions, that improves incident response, incident reporting and situational awareness.
The OS ESG offers a national view for Great Britain (i.e. England, Wales and Scotland). It is published in the AddressBase Premium format and aligns fully with requirements specified during extensive user engagement.
The OS ESG does not provide data for Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey or Guernsey.
The key features of the OS ESG product are:
Easy to filter and apply features: The OS ESG is easily filterable so you can select the features that you are interested in based on the classifications allocated to those features.
Enhanced data for incident response and reporting: The gazetteer provides a single centralised source of information which allows for easier, faster and more precise identification of incident locations.
The OS ESG enables emergency responders to be more accurately informed, improving emergency response times and public safety:
Quick and accurate gazetteer searches
Supports incident reporting and planning (for example, giving more accurate emergency response times)
Enhanced data sharing across emergency services
Supports incident and risk analysis and modelling (for example, analysing trends and patterns of road traffic collisions to both help identify risk and support incident planning)
Improves operational reporting
The OS ESG is published in the AddressBase Premium format, aligning with requirements specified during user engagement. This is to ensure ease of use for the Emergency Services already consuming OS Address data in this format.
The OS ESG only includes the BasicLandPropertyUnit (BLPU), LandPropertyIdentifier (LPI) and Classification components, not the full AddressBase Premium model.
The following datasets are available within the OS ESG:
This contents of this table are subject to change with future releases of the product.
This overview includes the following section:
A helpful introductory Lightning Talk on the OS ESG is 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).
| Dataset Name | Dataset Description |
|---|---|
Name and Location of Road Junctions
Road Junction features will be provided for junctions where two or more named or numbered roads intersect. For junctions which have an official name or number, the official names will be provided where identified.
Geographical Names
A subset of Geographical Names features, such as named water and named geographic features, will be provided in the OS ESG. Extensive features greater than 20km² will not be provided.
