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The Average and Indicative Speed feature type provides two sets of speed information for all roads in Great Britain. These are: A historic average speed in kilometres per hours (kph). In this...

With the introduction of the regional government for London (referred to as the Greater London Authority or GLA by OS NGD documentation), the proportional representation voting area for this new...

A polling district is the subdivision of a parliamentary constituency for the purpose of a UK Parliamentary election. Polling districts are not maintained on a regular basis and have mostly been...

Feature which has a line geometry and represents a linear, freestanding, manmade construction that is not a building and is not wide enough to capture as a structure. Examples include a gate or...

A Connecting Node is a point feature that identifies the point along the Road Link which the Path Link connects to. The Connecting Node has been snapped to a vertex along the Road Link and...

The aim of the National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA) is to evaluate the patterns of care and outcomes for patients with prostate cancer in England and Wales, and to support services to improve the...

Point feature associated with permanent inland water that is too small to be captured as a Water feature but which OS consider to be of sufficient interest to be captured.

A line feature representing the edges of a traffic calming area in the road network. (This abstract has been temporarily padded to import into GeoNetwork)

Polygon feature which represents the recognisable extent of certain types of function or activity. Examples include a caravan site, a university, and a railway centre.

This feature type has been created to provide greater alignment between OS data and Office for National Statistics (ONS) data and to support a wider range of analysis. Welsh and Scottish Unitary...

Polygon feature representing a manmade construction that is not a building. Examples include a mast, a chimney, and a crane.

An area on the Earth's surface that has not otherwise been captured as a Building Part, Structure Point, or Water Point feature and is too small to capture as a Land feature, for example, a...

In the OS NGD Boundaries Collection, the mean high water (springs) mark is shown to the normal tidal limit (NTL). Areas of salt marsh, mudflats and so on often have extremely complicated tide...

The ferry and road network elements are linked together through a Ferry Terminal feature. A Ferry Terminal is a logical connection between the two networks and therefore there is no geometry...

Buildings that consist of multiple adjoining building parts. When contained in a Land Use Site, adjoining building parts will be represented by a single feature. The latest data schema version...

The Road and Path Networks are not topologically structured together. Connecting Links have been introduced to enable a connection between the Road Network and the Path Network without splitting...

A Ferry Link is a linear spatial object which represents the connectivity of a vehicular ferry route across a body of water. A Ferry Link will only be captured where both terminals are located...

A settlement, locality, geographical feature, or area of water that has a name, represented as a point.

The Scottish Parliament electoral region is a grouping of Scottish Parliament constituencies. The Welsh Parliament electoral region is a grouping of Welsh Parliament constituencies.

The European Diploma is an award established by the Council of Europe under Regulation (65) 6 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe of 6 March 1965 for certain landscapes,...