Identification

Title

OS Open Built Up Areas

Abstract

OS Open Built Up Areas represents the built up areas of Great Britain and contains three unique datasets, offering maximum flexibility to meet your needs: Built Up Areas, Built Up Extents and Non Built Up Extents and includes built up areas greater than 200,000m2 or 20 hectares, unique names, alternative language names and GSS codes.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/products/os-open-built-up-areas

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

name: Product description

description: OS Open Built Up Areas product description and technical specification

function: information

https://github.com/OrdnanceSurvey/OS-Open-Built-Up-Areas-stylesheets

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

name: Stylesheets

function: information

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BuiltUpAreas

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

name: OS Open Built Up Areas download

description: Download OS Open Built Up Areas from the OS Data Hub

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

OS Open Built Up Areas

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

location

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Place Names

Statistics

Government Statistical Service codes

Alternative Language Names

Built Up Area

Built Up Extent

GSS codes

Non Built Up Extent

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.655

East bounding longitude

1.79

North bounding latitude

60.85

South bounding latitude

49.90

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Great Britain

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1900

End position

2022-10-04

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2022-12-07

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

OS Open Built Up Areas is created from the following Ordnance Survey data content stores: 1. Topographic Buildings, Roads, Residential Gardens and Made Surfaces, 2. Land Use Sites, 3. Settlement Named Areas.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

OS Open Built Up Places is not an INSPIRE compliant dataset

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2022-12-07

degree

true

explanation

Built Up Places conforms to its own specification

Data format

name of format

GeoPackage

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO160AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

03456050505

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

https://os.uk/contact-us

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO160AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

03456050505

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

https://os.uk/contact-us

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-02-02T14:54:23

Metadata language