Identification

Title

OS Towns Data

Abstract

Great Britain's (England, Scotland, Wales) towns named and represented as point features with an indicative bounding box. This data is often used for geocoding, service delivery and statistical analysis. OS Towns Data is available in a number of Ordnance Survey (OS) products: OS Open Names (bounding box and point geometry), OS Names API, MasterMap Topography Layer (point geometry), Vector Map Local (point geometry) and Vector Map District (point geometry). Small-scale cartographic representations are also available in OS cartographic products. All data is collected by Ordnance Survey as part of their role as the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

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

name: OS Open Names Download

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

OS Towns Data

codeSpace

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

Town

Keyword set

keyword value

new town

human settlement

urban area

population density

originating controlled vocabulary

title

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

2021-03-11

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-29

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Town names are generally derived from official records. Indicative polygons captured at 1:25,000 scale are created and held by Ordnance Survey and used to create bounding boxes where these are provided in OS published data products. The position of the name is determined by Ordnance Survey to approximately represent the social centre of the town, based on OS large scale data.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

true

explanation

OS Open Names conforms with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services by using the INSPIRE Geographical names technical guidance

Data format

name of format

GML

version of format

3.2.1

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Data Office

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 3456 050505

email address

customerservices@os.uk

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

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-02-01T11:55:28

Metadata language