Identification

Title

OS Open Roads

Abstract

OS Open Roads is a digital representation of Great Britain’s Roads. The links represent an approximate central alignment of the road carriageway and include roads classified by the National or Local Highway authority (for example, A Roads) and unclassified roads which make up Great Britain’s road network. Attributes identify the roads that make up the Primary Route Network (PRN) and the Strategic Route Network (SRN). The SRN is made up of nationally significant roads used for the distribution of goods and services, and a network for the travelling public. They are known as Trunk Roads. Whilst the PRN is made up of roads used for transport on a regional or county level and include all roads which make up the SRN.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://os.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-roads.html

description: Product description

function: information

https://os.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

description: OS OpenData orders

function: order

http://os.uk/xml/atom/OSOpenRoads.xml

description: Atom feed (INSPIRE Download service)

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

OS Open Roads

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

transportation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Transport networks

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Road network

Roads

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

publication

effective date

2015-03-23

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

OS Open Roads is a generalised product which has been automatically simplified from Ordnance Survey large scale data. Generalisation is the process of reducing the scale and complexity of the data whilst maintaining the important elements and characteristics of the features. The appropriate product scale is 1:25 000, with a recommended viewing scale range of 1:15 000 to 1:30 000.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

This data conforms except in that it is only available in British Natioanl Grid. We have extended the INSPIRE RoadLink feature with a number of additional attribute, including a simplified approach to providing distinctive names. We have added Road and MotorwayJunction feature types.

Data format

name of format

GML

version of format

3.2.1 Simple Features

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations on public access apply.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey, Great Britain

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

web address

http://os.uk/

description: Ordnance Survey, Great Britain top level website

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey, Great Britain

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2015-03-12T14:52:40

Metadata language