Internal use
Analytics and internal tools
Risk models, analytics and internal tooling on authoritative geography.
- Query and store for internal business use
- Bulk extracts scoped to your licence
- Move to product scope without re-papering
Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner
All nine OS NGD themes. One key.
Every theme and every collection of Ordnance Survey's National Geographic Database. Take it as GeoJSON features, vector tiles or plain JSON, or joined to planning, EPC and price history through the UPRN.
OS NGD · Great BritainBuildings
Building
- height
- 18.2 m
- roof material
- Slate
- solar panels
- No
osgb1000005307038 · refreshed daily
The database
Nine themes, every collection.
More than 500 million features covering Great Britain, refreshed daily from Ordnance Survey's national database, from building heights to postcode units.
01
Address
40M+ addresses with UPRNs, postal detail and full classification.
2 collections02
Buildings
Every structure in Britain: heights, roof shape and material, solar panels, building age.
4 collections03
Transport
Roads, rail, tracks and paths, with routing, restrictions and asset detail.
3 collections04
Water
Rivers, lakes, drains and tidal lines, plus the connected water network.
2 collections05
Land
Land cover, landforms and natural features across the whole country.
3 collections06
Land Use
Schools, hospitals, retail parks, caravan sites: what land is actually for.
3 collections07
Structures
Infrastructure beyond buildings: bridges, pylons, masts and field boundaries.
3 collections08
Geographical Names
Every named place, area, landmark and road junction in Great Britain.
3 collections09
Administrative & Statistical Units
Wards, constituencies, counties, postcode units and census geographies.
3 collectionsOne database, several shapes: OGC API - Features, vector tiles, plain JSON, or GeoPackage and CSV exports scoped to your licence.
The API
Query by bounding box, point, UPRN or collection.
Standard OGC API - Features endpoints. No SDK required, no GIS suite, no data drops to ingest.
01
OGC API - Features
Standards-compliant endpoints. Anything that speaks OGC speaks to this, from QGIS to your own services. Add it as an OGC API - Features connection in QGIS; no plugin, no export cycle.
02
Both coordinate systems
Request coordinates in British National Grid (EPSG:27700) or WGS84 (EPSG:4326). GeoJSON drops straight into Leaflet, Mapbox GL, Turf or PostGIS.
03
Bulk when the API is the wrong tool
GeoPackage and CSV exports for portfolio-scale work, scoped to your licence. We will tell you when an export beats the meter.
04
Daily currency
20,000+ features updated every day, straight from the national database. No six-weekly refresh cycles.
Query by UPRNBuildings
GET /v1/ngd/features/buildings?uprn=100023336956
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"numberReturned": 1,
"features": [
{
"type": "Feature",
"id": "osgb1000005307038",
"geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [...] },
"properties": {
"uprn": 100023336956,
"buildingAge": "1930-1949",
"height": 9.2
}
}
]
}Addresses near a pointAddress
GET /v1/ngd/features/addresses?point=53.4808,-2.2426&radius=100
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"numberMatched": 42,
"numberReturned": 42,
"features": [
{
"type": "Feature",
"geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-2.2426, 53.4808] },
"properties": {
"uprn": 77281020,
"fullAddress": "1 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 1RG",
"classification": "Commercial"
}
}
]
}One UPRN → the same identifier joins planning, EPC and price history
Pricing and licensing
One meter. Four ways to be licensed.
Which route you need depends on how you use the data, not what you pay. Live rates sit in the API portal, shown when your key is issued. The licence scopes what you may do with the answer.
Product
NGD inside your product
Customer-facing products serving NGD-derived data to your users.
- Product terms from day one
- Prototype to production on one key
- Derived data stays yours, with attribution
PSGA
Public sector
Councils and agencies already covered by PSGA membership.
- Your entitlement honoured, the data already licensed
- Hosted API or managed deployment, on-prem and private cloud
- Straight advice if PSGA-direct fits better
BYOL
Bring your own licence
You already hold OS commercial terms and want the rails.
- Keep the terms you negotiated with OS
- Our API layer, caching and UPRN joins
- Live in days, no re-procurement
One agreement covers it: your licence is issued under our Ordnance Survey partner contract, royalty reporting happens on our side, every response carries its provenance, and derived data stays yours if you leave. The partnership behind this page, in full: how Vepler works with Ordnance Survey.
Migration
Moving from OS MasterMap to OS NGD.
Ordnance Survey is retiring the MasterMap family in stages, and NGD is the successor. Here is what replaces what.
You run today Its NGD successor
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
Land, Structures and Buildings themes
OS MasterMap Water Network Layer
Water Network collection
AddressBase family
Address theme
OS publishes the retirement timetable. Bring your renewal date and your current schema; we plan the cutover against them.
