OS Names API
With OS Names API, you’ll have access to a straightforward, rapid lookup service: drilling down into the details we hold in our OS Open Names dataset. The API uses the OS Open Names dataset, a gazetteer or directory hosting detailed information about 2.5 million identifiable places in Great Britain including postcodes, roads and settlements. A free, searchable, reliable database to help you find and verify populated places, road names, road numbers and postcodes. OS Names API is a reliable way of supporting the discovery or identification and visualisation of a named place; geocoding; routing and navigation, and linking diverse information such as statistics or descriptions. OS Names can locate a feature using just its name, or it can find the closest location to a given point.
service
https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/names/gettingStarted
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https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/names/technicalSpecification
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name: Technical Specification
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https://api.os.uk/search/names/v1
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description: Description for the OS Names API
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https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/names/overview
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name: Overview
function: information
OS Names API
https://os.uk
https://osmetadata.astuntechnology.com/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?service=CSW&request=GetRecordById&version=2.0.2&outputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&elementSetName=full&id=d442b64c-c8c8-11e4-8731-1681e6b88ec1
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700
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infoFeatureAccessService
publication
2008-12-03
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2020-07-01
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OS Names API is not an INSPIRE compliant service
JSON
1.0
OS OpenData API access is free
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