OS Open Names

OS Open Names is a reliable location search product that provides access to place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain. It contains current settlement names, road names and numbers, postcodes and their feature type.

This product is updated every three months

View documentationFree to use for everyone
Data access
  • Download
Data structure
  • Vector
Format
  • CSV
  • GML
  • GeoPackage

What OS Open Names provides you with

Accurate locations of streets and postcodes

Let your customer-facing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in Great Britain.

Place name data

Quickly look up places and roads with two names. OS Open Names contains place name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives.

Comprehensive National Grid data

OS Open Names contains over 870,000 named and numbered roads, nearly 44,000 settlements and over 1.6 million postcodes, all matched/mapped to the National Grid.

Use cases

  • Improves emergency planning and response times by accurately identifying named locations.
  • Speeds up site analysis and conveyancing by enabling quicker, more accurate location searches.
  • Supports planning applications, traffic management, and interactive maps for citizen reporting and engagement.

OS Open Names is a reliable location search product that provides access to place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain. It contains current settlement names, road names and numbers, postcodes and their feature type.

This product is updated every three months

View documentationFree to use for everyone
Data access
  • Download
Data structure
  • Vector
Format
  • CSV
  • GML
  • GeoPackage

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