Identification

Title

OS Names API

Abstract

With OS Names API, you’ll have access to a straightforward, rapid lookup service: drilling down into the details we hold in our OS Open Names dataset. The API uses the OS Open Names dataset, a gazetteer or directory hosting detailed information about 2.5 million identifiable places in Great Britain including postcodes, roads and settlements. A free, searchable, reliable database to help you find and verify populated places, road names, road numbers and postcodes. OS Names API is a reliable way of supporting the discovery or identification and visualisation of a named place; geocoding; routing and navigation, and linking diverse information such as statistics or descriptions. OS Names can locate a feature using just its name, or it can find the closest location to a given point.

Resource type

service

Resource locator

https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/names/gettingStarted

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

name: Getting Started Guide

function: information

https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/names/technicalSpecification

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

name: Technical Specification

function: information

https://api.os.uk/search/names/v1

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

name: API Endpoint URL

description: Description for the OS Names API

function: search

https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/names/overview

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

name: Overview

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

OS Names API

codeSpace

https://os.uk

Coupled resource

https://osmetadata.astuntechnology.com/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?service=CSW&request=GetRecordById&version=2.0.2&outputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&elementSetName=full&id=d442b64c-c8c8-11e4-8731-1681e6b88ec1

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Spatial data service type

download

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

infoFeatureAccessService

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-12-03

Keyword set

keyword value

Geographical names

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

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

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2020-07-01

Frequency of update

quarterly

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

OS Names API is not an INSPIRE compliant service

Data format

name of format

JSON

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

OS OpenData API access is free

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

osdatahubenquiries@os.uk

web address

http://os.uk/

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

email address

customerservices@os.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-06-28T15:05:37

Metadata language