Building Features

The OS National Geographic Database (NGD) Building Features Collection gives you access to the most current and comprehensive buildings data captured by Ordnance Survey as a standalone collection.

Collection applications

The OS NGD Building Features Collection allows you to:

• Ensure your buildings data is always completely up to date with up to daily updates.

• Perform powerful analytics, underpinned by unrivalled OS accuracy.

• Use enhanced change metadata to monitor and understand how the building landscape is changing.

• Quickly interpret building type (such as clock tower, multistorey car park or archway) using the Description attribute value.

• Determine whether buildings are residential or commercial by using the new land use classification.

• Create simple height models of buildings by using the embedded height attribution.

Key elements

• Up to daily updates to data.

• Plug and play – the data is simple and quick to implement as you don't need to pre-process it before you use it.

• Rich attribution ensures the data is straightforward to navigate and query.

• Simplified attribute naming helps make names easier to understand.

• Persistent unique identifiers with lifecycle information.

• Height data included.

• Land use classification (for example, residential accommodation) provided for Building Part Feature Type.

Coverage

Great Britain.

Default coordinate reference system

British National Grid (EPSG: 27700).

Temporal filtering

The earliest date on which you can request a one-off snapshot of a date in the past for data in this collection is noted at the top of the individual feature type pages.

Supply formats

GeoPackage, CSV (comma-separated values), GeoJSON or vector tiles (the latter format is only available for one feature type in the collection: Building Part).

Supply mechanism

Accessed through the OS Data Hub via:

• OS Select+Build

• OS NGD API – Features

• OS NGD API – Tiles (only available for one feature type in the collection: Building Part)

Using our data

• Included in the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) – therefore, it's free at point of use for Public Sector organisations.

• Available to OS Partners for commercial resell in your solutions.