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We distribute free sample data under the terms of our Discover Data Licence to give an indication of what the data will be like.

You may be interested in this licence if you are a private individual, new customer, social entrepreneur, or represent a social group or start up company.

Discover Data Licence

Our products covered by the Discover Data Licence terms and conditions can be used for your internal evaluation and testing purposes only. You cannot develop or demonstrate the data. It is free of charge and can be used as long as you adhere to the terms in the link below.

By downloading any of the following datasets you agree to be bound by the ‘Discover’ Data Licence terms and conditions.

If you would like more information, to ask us for a quote or to find product order forms, please click on the product names below, which will take you to the relevant product page.

All sample data is of the same area in Exeter for ease of comparison.

If you have any comments or queries on the sample data please email innovation@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

OS MasterMap

OS MasterMap^® is a continually updated database containing a variety of information in four different product layers. This type of data must be used with additional software that can read, translate and present GML files.

By downloading any of the following datasets you agree to be bound by the ‘Discover’ Data Licence terms and conditions.

OS MasterMap Topography Layer

GML format

OS MasterMap Address Layer 2

GML format | GML with CSV

OS MasterMap Imagery Layer

ECW JPEG TIFF MrSIDv2 MrSIDv3

OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer

GML format

OS MasterMap ITN Urban Paths Theme

GML format

OS MasterMap – Sites Layer

GML format

Free software and evaluation services are available from our partners to get you started.

Snowflake Software - OS MasterMap viewer

Snowflake is an Ordnance Survey partner, providing free software for viewing OS MasterMap Layers.

Lutra Consulting – OS MasterMap Topography Layer loader

Lutra Consulting is an Ordnance Survey Developer Partner, providing free and open source software for working with OS MasterMap Topography Layer.

AddressBase™

AddressBase products

AddressBase - CSV format | GML format
AddressBase Plus - CSV format | GML format
AddressBase Premium - CSV format | GML format

Vector data

This type of data must be used with additional software that can read and present all the information connected to the map data such as address, date of change, boundary type, height and many other features and attributes.

By downloading any of the following datasets you agree to be bound by the ‘Discover’ Data Licence terms and conditions .

OS VectorMap^® Local

GML format

OS VectorMap^® Local- Raster

vectormap local map image thumbnail size

Colour -TIFF format
Black and White-TIFF Format
Backdrop -TIFF format

Free software and evaluation services for OS VectorMap Local are available from our partners to get you started.

Rolta

Providing solutions for OS VectorMap Local, including free software for loading and styling the GML data to Esri Shape and MapInfo TAB formats.

Dotted Eyes^®

Providing tiled and custom services for translating OS VectorMap Local GML data to MapInfo Professional or Esri ArcGIS.

Sigma Seven

Providing free GeoField Evaluation Edition software, to view, manipulate and explore working with OS VectorMap Local.

Europa Technologies

Providing web map tile rendering services for OS VectorMap Local. The service converts GML data into a pre-rendered set of map tiles, ready for deployment on the web or desktop GIS.

Snowflake Software

Providing a generic tool for loading and styling OS VectorMap Local GML data to Oracle (Spatial or Locator) database, SQL Server 2008 or PostGIS.

ADDRESS-POINT^®