Land Point

An area on the Earth's surface that has not otherwise been captured as a Building Part, Structure Point, or Water Point feature and is too small to capture as a Land feature, for example, a coniferous tree or a non-coniferous tree.

Temporal filtering

The earliest date on which you can request a one-off snapshot of a date in the past for data in this feature type is 29 September 2022.

Any data temporally filtered earlier than the specified earliest date noted above for the data schema version may contain data inconsistencies.

Feature type attributes

The following sub-sections provide details about the attributes included with this feature type, their data types in the different output formats, and other important metadata about them.

osid

Primary identifier for the feature. The OSID is a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) and requires no centralised authority to ensure uniqueness. Note that the same OSID can occur in more than one feature type when a single feature is represented multiple times in the OS NGD.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Max Length: 36

toid

Topographic identifier (TOID) of the feature, as published in the OS MasterMap suite of products.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 20

versiondate

Date when the version was last updated.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

versionavailablefromdate

The date this version of the feature became the latest version.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), DateTime (GPKG), DateTime (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

versionavailabletodate

The date this version of the feature was superseded by an update or ceased to exist.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), DateTime (GPKG), DateTime (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

firstdigitalcapturedate

Represents the date on which a feature was first digitally captured by Ordnance Survey.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

changetype

The type of change that generated a new version of the feature.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name:

geometry

Geometry for the feature.

• Data Types: Geometry (GeoJSON), Geometry (GPKG), WKT (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

geometry_evidencedate

The date on which the latest evidence was gathered to make an update if required. For example the date of collection by a surveyor or third party information received.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

geometry_updatedate

Date when the attribute was last updated.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

geometry_source

The source organisation who provided the data.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 50

theme

The OS NGD theme to which this feature belongs.

• Data Types: Array (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name:

description

A single descriptive value intended for a quick understanding of what the feature represents.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name:

description_evidencedate

The date on which the latest evidence was gathered to make an update if required. For example the date of collection by a surveyor or third party information received.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

description_updatedate

Date when the attribute was last updated.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

description_source

The source organisation who provided the data.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 50

name1_text

Name assigned to identify the feature.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 254

name1_language

The language of name1, provided as a 3-digit ISO 639-2 code ('eng, 'cym', 'gla').

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Code List Name:

name1_evidencedate

The date on which the latest evidence was gathered to make an update if required. For example the date of collection by a surveyor or third party information received.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

name1_updatedate

Date when the attribute was last updated.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

name1_source

The organisation that provided the information.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 50

name2_text

The alternative language name assigned to identify the feature.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 254

name2_language

The language of name2, provided as a 3-digit ISO 639-2 code ('eng, 'cym', 'gla').

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Code List Name:

name2_evidencedate

The date on which the latest evidence was gathered to make an update if required. For example the date of collection by a surveyor or third party information received.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

name2_updatedate

Date when the attribute was last updated.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), Date (GPKG), Date (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

name2_source

The organisation that provided the information.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: true

• Max Length: 50

operationalstatus

An indicator of whether the feature is currently performing its original function.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name:

isobscured

An indicator that the feature is at ground level but lies below another feature represented in the data. For example a road with a bridge over it will have the attribute set to 'True'.

• Data Types: Boolean (GeoJSON), Integer (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• OS NGD API – Features Filterable: No

physicallevel

The relative relationship of the feature to ground surface level, where ground surface level is the lowest identifiable level that is not underground.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name:

capturespecification

Indicates the capture specification used by OS when capturing the feature. This could either be Urban, Rural or Moorland.

• Data Types: String (GeoJSON), String (GPKG), String (CSV)

• Nullable: false

• Code List Name: