Recommended Routes are authoritative routes on OS Maps curated by our trusted partners. They are served first in any search results to users and include the route provider name and logo on the route card.
Become a Recommended Route Provider for OS Maps
What are Recommended Routes?
Why provide Recommended Routes to OS Maps?
Here are some reasons why:
- We give you access to a ready-made, market-leading, navigation and mapping app for your official routes
- It's free to upload and manage your content
- Your routes are marked with Recommended Route Provider verification mark
- Expand your reach to over 4 million active users of OS Maps
- Promote official routes via OS Maps to manage visitor flows
- Measure impact and evaluate route performance through analytics
- Enable engagement through route design activities with networks and volunteers
- Enhance your brand through a visible partnership with Ordnance Survey.
Host your OS Maps route collection on your website
This feature provides a string of HTML code that allows you to insert a dynamic OS Maps route on a website.
The feature functions as a live window into your OS Maps route.
The route can be interrogated directly by the user, with inbuilt zoom and pan functions, without leaving your website. If you update your route on OS Maps, the embedded route on your website will also update.
Apply to become an OS Maps Recommended Route Provider
To ensure we maintain the standard of the routes we are recommending to our users, we ask all potential route providers to first consider the following guidance:
Recommended Routes:
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Recommended Route descriptions should be:
Links to the relevant physical OS Maps should also be provided where possible. |
Recommended routes:
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If you think your route collection meets these requirements, please complete our application form.