Identification

Title

OS Buildings Data

Abstract

Line or area representations of buildings in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales), including their walls and the divisions between properties. Also includes height value for every building captured in large scale topography. Made available in the following OS products: OS MasterMap Topography Layer; OS MasterMap Building Height Attribute

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://os.uk/business-government/products/vectormap-local

protocol:

name: OS Vector Map Local product information

description:

function: information

http://os.uk/business-government/products/mastermap-topography

name: OS Master Map Topography Layer Product Information

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

OS Buildings Data

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

structure

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

wall

built structure

building

building component

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.45

East bounding longitude

1.78

North bounding latitude

60.86

South bounding latitude

49.86

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Great Britain

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

2021-01-29

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-01-29

Frequency of update

continual

Quality and validity

Lineage

Buildings footprints and heights are captured through field and photogrammetric survey and made available in Topography Layer. OS Vector Map Local and OS OpenMap Local are automatically generalised from the same base data.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Not available as an INSPIRE compliant dataset.

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-11

date type

revision

effective date

2017-08

degree

true

explanation

The largest scale buildings data conforms to the Topography Layer specification.

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Data Office

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 3456 050505

email address

os.data@os.uk

web address

https://os.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Data Office

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@os.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-07-22T13:33:16

Metadata language