Our Data Exploration Licence (DEL) allows you to use OS data for free for 12 months.
Explore and use OS premium data to develop your ideas for free before deciding if the paid-for service is for you.
Evaluate our exploration data and use it to research and develop. It doesn’t matter if you’re not sure how our data might help you yet. You can assess it for a potential commercial opportunity or see what potential benefits and value it could bring to you, perhaps to build a case for licensing exploration data in your business or organisation.
Create working prototypes using our data to demonstrate and promote your ideas on your own equipment. Showcase how your ideas or propositions would work. This is ideal for potential customers, agents, investors or other financial backers.
Use OS data in time-bound events to promote collaboration and innovation, to provide better insight into specific uses, or develop ideas or answer particular questions. You can use it as part of competitions, hackathons and mash-ups for example.
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Our DEL lets you use our OS data for 12 months. It also lets you use third party OS data for three months.
For instance, our AddressBase, AddressBase Plus, AddressBase Premium and AddressBase Islands products.
We ask that you provide us with information about you and your company or organisation.
Acknowledge that you’re using exploration data and that you’re doing so in the right way by using our style guide (PDF).
Make sure any prototypes you provide, or any OS data you provide is returned to you or destroyed within seven days. Tell us if doing this might disrupt your long term plans and we can discuss appropriate licensing.
Take sensible measures to make sure all exploration data supplied to you is secure from any unauthorised use or access.
Do not make any exploration data available to third parties or create any products or services which have benefitted from, relied on or made use of our exploration data.
If you want to do that, then tell us. We can then agree how to make this happen.
Data available under the DEL can only be used to develop your idea for a product or service for third parties, or to see if the data would be suitable to meet your own internal business requirements.
If you want to use the data for your own internal business use upon expiry of your DEL, you’ll need to contact one of our Licensed Partners to licence the data.
The DEL is not intended for (educational use or) academic research. If you require OS data for this, please visit Education use.
Get in touch for more support on how to use our licences
Explore and use OS premium data to develop your ideas for free before deciding if the paid-for service is for you.
If you want to download OS data so you can store and use it locally, apply using the form below. Please note: you will need specialised software to do this.
If you want to access data via an API you can do this on the OS Data Hub. This is particularly applicable if you're looking to design, develop and launch applications.
