Identification

Title

OS Open Rivers

Abstract

OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144,000 km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals. Understand how water bodies and watercourses in Great Britain join up. OS Open Rivers provides a comprehensive datset of Great Britain's River Network, which approximately indicates the central alignment of the watercourse. Inland and tidal rivers are represented by a series of connected link and node features which are assigned with river name and flow direction.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://os.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

description: OS OpenData orders

function: order

https://os.uk/business-government/products/open-map-rivers

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: OS Open Rivers product page

https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenRivers/downloads?area=GB&format=ESRI%C2%AE+Shapefile&redirect

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Shapefile download

description: OS Open Rivers - ESRI® Shapefile GB (38.53 MB)

function: download

https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenRivers/downloads?area=GB&format=GML&subformat=3&redirect

protocol: null

name: GML download

description: OS Open Rivers - GML 3 GB (39.63 MB)

function: download

https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenRivers/downloads?area=GB&format=GeoPackage&redirect

protocol: null

name: GeoPackage download

description: OS Open Rivers - GeoPackage GB (54.16 MB)

function: download

https://osmetadata.astuntechnology.com/geonetwork/srv/api/records/7987ab75-4f5a-4799-81b3-a9f747ee291e

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: OS Download API

description: OS Download API

Unique resource identifier

code

OS Open Rivers

codeSpace

https://os.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

flow

river

tidal water

watercourse

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.45

East bounding longitude

1.78

North bounding latitude

60.86

South bounding latitude

49.86

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Great Britain

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1880

End position

2020-10

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015-03-23

date type

revision

effective date

2020-10

Frequency of update

biannually

Quality and validity

Lineage

OS Open Rivers is a generalised product which has been automatically derived from Ordnance Survey large scale data. The nominal usage scale is 1:25 000, with a recommended viewing scale range of 1:15 000 to 1:30 000.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

This data conforms except in that it is only available in British Natioanl Grid. We have extended the INSPIRE WatercourseLink feature with four additional attribute, including a simplified approach to providing distinctive names.

Data format

name of format

GML

version of format

3.2

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Please acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@os.co.uk

web address

http://os.uk/

description: Ordnance Survey, Great Britain top level website

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Data Office

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

http://os.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-07-14T15:10:30

Metadata language

eng