Get inspired with location data through OS mapping and data APIs
Tools to get you started
Copy-and-paste code examples in mapping libraries including Mapbox GL JS, Leaflet, OpenLayers and ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
API documentation
Our overviews, getting started guides and technical specifications contain all the information you need to understand and use our maps and data.
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Get best use from our APIs
Quick start
Get started with basic background mapping, and GeoJSON and GPX overlays.
Web development
Build location web apps with destination locators, scroll stories and find nearest features functionality.
GIS application
Modelling and mapping using OS data.
Data science
Understand how to complete spatial data analytics in IPython Notebooks with Premium and Open Data from the OS Data Hub along with other sources of data.
Developer blog
OS Data Hub to canvas: bring your favourite GB locations to life
Using OS OpenData and ArcGIS Pro, learn how to make your own map and print it on to canvas.
Space, maps and the vulnerable
OS partners 4 Earth Intelligence explain how OS data is enabling their work to address climate change.
Meet the team: Alina Piotrowska
Alina Piotrowska shares a day in the life of a data steward.
Building Passport – the story so far
As founder and CEO of Building Passport, Rupert Parker explains how he has used OS data to support his PropTech start-up.
Location data making a difference
Using OS data to help fix the housing market
Sprift, a UK tech start-up and OS Partner, has used brought together location intelligence on any property in the country, in one place, online.
The mobile app that makes exploring the British countryside easy
Using Ordnance Survey’s API, the Outdoors GPS app helps outdoor enthusiasts find their way – by providing OS Maps at any time, in any location – both on and offline.
Support
Support from OS Developers
Can’t find what you are looking for from the resources available? Check out our GitHub repositories and raise an issue with our developers on GitHub.
Geovation
If your startup needs location or property data and expertise to succeed, our accelerator programmes, community events and hands-on development resources will help guide you.
Community Support
You can use the popular developer Q&A site GIS Stack Exchange to raise your technical questions. Be sure to tag your questions with ordnance-survey and any other relevant tags.