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OS NGD API – Tiles

What is OS NGD API – Tiles?

You have a choice between using Ordnance Survey styles or creating your own. You can customise the content and style to create a professional-looking map that perfectly meets your needs, matches your branding, and pleases your customers.

OS NGD API – Tiles is available in two projections: British National Grid for Great Britain (GB) data and Web Mercator, a global coordinate system.

Things to remember for OS NGD API – Tiles

You can:

Use it as a basemap in GIS, web or mobile applications.
View the whole of Great Britain in unrivalled detail.
Seamlessly pan, zoom, pitch and tilt the map.
Overlay your own data on the basemap to give geographic context to your data.
Trace over OS NGD (Premium Data) detailed geometries.
Customise the map style and content to create the map you need.
Access maps in different projections: British National Grid and Web Mercator.

You can't:

Retrieve all the detailed attribution from OS NGD data.
Access data from the:
- OS NGD Address Theme
- OS NGD Routing and Asset Management Information (RAMI) Collection (of the OS NGD Transport Theme)

Technical Specification

OS NGD API – Tiles Technical Specification provides an overview of the endpoints available, as well as the parameters that can be used with each endpoint. The Technical Specification is intended to be used by customers who want to integrate with the API. The service offers the following endpoints:

Landing page

OS NGD API – Tiles landing page.

Conformance

List the OS NGD API – Tiles conformance to the OGC API - Tiles specification.

Collections

Get a list of all the available tile layers available.

Collection

Get information about a specific tile layer.

Tile Matrix Sets

Get the available tiling schemes and definition.

Tiles

Get tilesets and vector tiles from a specific tile layer.

Styles

Get a list of the available styles and the stylesheet.