OS Open Names
A comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain. Accurate locations Let your customer-facing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in Great Britain. Place name data Quickly look up places and roads with two names. OS Open Names contains place name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives. Simple licensing Save money and benefit from simple licensing terms. OS Open Names is free to view, download and use for commercial, education and personal purposes.
dataset
https://os.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html
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https://os.uk/business-government/products/names-api
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https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenNames/downloads?area=GB&format=CSV&redirect
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: CSV download
description: OS Open Names - CSV GB (105.91 MB)
function: download
https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenNames/downloads?area=GB&format=GML&subformat=3&redirect
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name: GML download
description: OS Open Names - GML 3 GB (216.39 MB)
function: download
https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenNames/downloads?area=GB&format=GeoPackage&redirect
protocol: null
name: Geopackage download
description: OS Open Names - GeoPackage GB (266.61 MB)
function: download
http://data.os.uk/datasets/opennames
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name: Linked data endpoint
description: Explore the dataset as JSON, XML, or TTL
function: download
OS Open Names
https://os.uk
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
The content of the Product is divided into themes based on their type and local type classification values. The primary use of the product is to provide the location for a named place to support discovery or identification and visualisation, geocoding, routing and navigation and linking diverse information about a place (for example, statistics or descriptions). The name of the place will be the key property used for querying. It is also recognised that a place may have multiple names; an official name, which may be defined in multiple languages (English/Welsh or English/Gaelic), for example, Cardiff (English) and Caerdydd (Welsh). Names are not unique so additional location information is provided to enable users to refine their query to select the Named Place they are interested in. These include: postcode district, populated place, district/borough, county/unitary authority, and country. The OS Open Names specification extends the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) Geographical Names theme to ensure that it is compliant with European open data initiatives.
location
publication
2013-12-10
publication
2008-06-01
publication
2013-12-10
Gazetteer
OS Locator
Post code
Postcodes
Cities
Towns
Rivers
-8.655
1.79
60.85
49.90
Great Britain
1880
2018-12-20
publication
2015-03-23
revision
2021-01
biannually
OS Open Names contains named places, road names and numbers and postcodes from the National Geographic Database.
publication
2010-12-08
true
Get Spatial Data Set is implemented indirectly, as per Article 14 paragraph 4 of the Directive. We have extended the INSPIRE NamedPlace feature with a number of additional association properties, providing an explicit context for the feature in relation to administrative units, or indicating the related road feature, and with references out to GeoNames and DBPedia.
GML
3.2.1
Customer Services
Ordnance Survey
Adanac Drive
Southampton
SO160AS
United Kingdom
03456050505
custodian
Data Office
Ordnance Survey
Adanac Drive
Southampton
SO160AS
United Kingdom
03456050505
pointOfContact
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