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.

March 2023 OS NGD enhancements

Highlights of the March 2023 OS NGD enhancements released to customers.

OS NGD access enhancements – March 2023

• Launch of the new vector tiles API: OS NGD API – Tiles.

OS NGD data enhancements – March 2023

Address

• New attributes added to existing address feature types and improvements made for addressing floor-level information as part of the release of data schema version 2.0 (see the Addressing 'Versioning information' page for more information).

• Improvements made to address data regarding the consistency of address positioning, usage classifications, business names and lifecycle.

Transport

• New Average and Indicative Speed Feature Type added to the OS NGD RAMI Collection, giving full Great Britain coverage for speed data.

• Speed data is now included in the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA), so it is free for PSGA Members for the first time.

• Increased number of daily time periods now available for average speed data.

• COUs (change-only updates) available for speed data for the first time.

• Improved completeness of the Road Width attribute in the Road Link Feature Type, which extends coverage for road width data from just urban areas to urban areas, rural areas and mountain and moorland areas.

Water

• Two new feature types added to the Water Features Collection:

  • Waterbody Catchment Feature Type

  • River Basin District Catchment Feature Type

OS Select+Build enhancements – March 2023

• Option to select which data schema version you want to access for certain address feature types (see the Addressing 'Versioning information' page and the 'Data schema versioning' page for more information).

• Ability to select a preference for the coordinate reference system you receive your OS NGD data in (see the 'Downloading with OS Select+Build' page and 'Coordinate reference systems' page for more details).

• New ability to share your created recipes with other organisations so that they can use exactly the same selections as you (see the 'Downloading with OS Select+Build' page for more details).

• A new 'Order Summary' file will now be provided with your data packages to aid data validation when loading and using OS NGD data.

• Enhanced search capability now available in both the Recipe Builder and your OS Select+Build Recipe Library, helping you locate feature types and your existing recipes quicker than before.