OS Names API

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Ordnance Survey
Last updated:
18 October 2024
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Summary

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.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2021-06-28
Access contraints
OS OpenData API access is free
Harvest GUID
4109a7d1-fba6-4fb3-b405-f41270422022
Extent
Latitude: 60.86° to 49.86°
Longitude: -8.45° to 1.78°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700
Dataset reference date
2020-07-01 (revision)
Frequency of update
quarterly
Responsible party
Ordnance Survey (publisher)
ISO 19139 resource type
service
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
XML
HTML

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